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, ...

In the three years since Pope Francis issued his environmental epistle Laudato Si (Care for Our Common Home), many Catholics have responded in a way that may be unparalleled for a papal encyclical.

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 ...

Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’: On Care For Our Common Home and his message about the environment is available from numerous English-language publishers. Although each Laudato Si’ uses the same ...

Festivities to mark the five-year anniversary of Pope Francis' landmark encyclical on the environment begin this weekend, just not how anyone originally anticipated. With the planet still grappling ...

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pope Leo IV have spearheaded a climate initiative during a three-day Vatican ...

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 ...

When Pope Francis released his encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’,” in 2015, Muslims, Hindus and other faith leaders joined Christians in dialogues in response to the pontiff’s powerful call ...

A week after publication, the meme that is settling in to soften the message of Laudato Si’ is that Pope Francis’ ecological encyclical is not political. Thus, the Iowa Catholic Conference describes ...

In 2015, someone gave me a copy of Laudato Si' and it changed my life. I was a junior at a public college, majoring in physics and religious studies, and I was the only Christian I knew who cared ...

The Vatican will on May 24 launch a year-long celebration of Pope Francis' environmental encyclical Laudato si' to mark its fifth anniversary. The "special Laudato si' anniversary year" is an ...

Celebrate 10 years of Laudato Si’ with a panel on its impact, challenges ahead, and living its message today. Nov. 2 at Cranaleith & online.