This text is a useful guide for an initial reading of the Encyclical. It will help you to grasp the overall development and identify the basic themes. The first two pages are an overview of Laudato si ...

Terrence Thompson's work gives him an up-close view of the impact of climate change and other environmental factors on public health around the world. Becoming a Laudato Si' Animator has helped him ...

The document addresses issues such as climate change, care for the environment, and the defense of human life and dignity. Pope Francis presides over a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on July 23, ...

(RNS) — Pope Francis put the Catholic Church on the side of the environmental movement by embracing science and our responsibility for global warming. (RNS) — With all that happened in the Catholic ...

Pope Francis said Wednesday he will release a follow-up environmental document to the 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’ on Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Speaking at the end of his general ...

Pope Leo XIV fed fish, petted horses and visited organic vineyards Friday as he inaugurated the Vatican’s ambitious project to turn Pope Francis’ preaching about caring for the environment into ...

Pope Francis' Laudato Si' offers a contemporary vision of the whole world being wrapped up in, and expressive of, God's unmerited, ongoing offer of love. Paul Melley offers his own musical compostion ...