Brian Roewe

Festivities to mark the five-year anniversary of Pope Francis' landmark encyclical on the environment begin this weekend. The theme is "everything is connected," and more than 100 Catholic organizations worldwide have signed on as partners.

Carol Raymond's mask helps prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. But it doesn't block her from listening, a skill critical in spiritual care, especially now.

Impacts of the virus on the country's youngest generations have come clearer into view, from dealing with feelings of loneliness and restlessness while social distancing, to facing long-term economic effects.

An oil drilling facility in a south-central Los Angeles neighborhood is on the verge of being permanently shut down, representing a long-sought victory for residents but one with virtually no assistance from the local archdiocese, which owns and leases the land.

EarthBeat Weekly: Concerns about spreading the coronavirus has led restaurants and grocery stores to turn to disposable items over reusable alternatives.

People across the world logged onto their computers to follow along with livestreams and join virtual meetings to take part in the annual Earth Day, dedicated to protecting our common planetary home.

An estimated 20 million Americans took part in the first Earth Day in 1970. Scattered among them were many Catholics and people of faith, and EarthBeat hears some of their stories, 50 years later.

Parishes and Catholic organizations have been among the hundreds of thousands of small businesses and nonprofits that have rushed to the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program.

The Chicago Archdiocese made clear that its guidelines did not pertain to emergency baptism: They did not supersede church law that permits any person to conduct the rite "in cases of urgent necessity, when only those things required for the validity of the sacrament must be observed."

Catholic groups urge governments to still put forward new emissions targets required this year under the Paris Agreement. 

Looking for environmental films or documentaries to watch while social distancing? We have some options.

Many activists had billed 2020 as pivotal for the global response to climate change. But like so much of society, the environmental movement has had to readjust plans and priorities amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Teachers, students and parents alike recover educational routines in the new normal of remote learning in schools across the Chicago Archdiocese in the wake of the global coronavirus outbreak.

A climate workshop on community-oriented research was to precede a two-day climate change conference at Loyola University Chicago; it ended up being the only scheduled event that wasn't canceled.

In a video message March 3, Pope Francis announced Laudato Si' Week, inviting the 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide to undertake ambitious actions to address mounting environmental perils.

The religious congregation is extending the Lenten observance to what they're calling Mercy Meatless Mondays, inviting Catholics to join them in addressing climate change with more plant-based diets.

After months of mounting student pressure, Creighton University announced it will partially divest its half-billion-dollar endowment from fossil fuel companies.

Seven Catholic schools are among 57 taking part in Fossil Fuel Divestment Day.

Pope Francis denounces in perhaps his strongest terms yet the unrestrained development in the Amazon that he says destroys one of the planet's critical ecosystems and disenfranchises its indigenous peoples.