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Cellphones and social media hurt teens. A countercultural Catholicism could help.
… teaching provides the framework to address many of these issues. Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si has properly framed the challenge of climate change, as he has called us to hear both "the cry …
Pope Francis urges students in Portugal to fight economic injustice, protect environment
… under the banner of the "Economy of Francis" the "Global Compact on Education" and the Laudato Si' movement, named for Francis' 2015 encyclical on the environment. "I think that all …
Catholic climate conference spotlights 'Laudato Si' Champions' of US church
… 94-year-old priest, a grandmother and an all-boys high school. All were among those honored as Laudato Si' Champions within the U.S. Catholic Church for their varied and extensive ecological efforts …
As record heat scorches the globe, climate advocates urge Catholics to take action
… about climate change, a warming earth, and the call to action of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si' — and can individual Catholics make a difference? "If you want proof of what the significance …
Michigan event backs EPA pollution limits, decries health impacts of systemic racism
… proximity. Event panelist and Passionist Fr. Alex Steinmiller serves on his order's national Laudato Si' commission. This week, Steinmiller celebrates 60 years since his vows "to live simply, to pay …
American Meteorological Society's multifaith project responds to Earth's cry
… and discussed ways to partner on environmentalism. The Catholic Climate Covenant and the Laudato Si' Movement are among those faith organizations that COSMOS has partnered with in their mission …
Pope Francis' new Vatican doctrinal chief signals enormous change for Catholic Church
… Gaudium , often called the "Magna Carta" of Francis' pontificate; the 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home," the pope's groundbreaking encyclical on ecological concerns …
How to confront despair about the coming effects of climate change
… In 2015, Pope Francis surveyed the scientific literature in his groundbreaking encyclical Laudato Si' . There was no real doubt about the science of climate change then, and still less is there …
To advance climate action, enter political fray and center working-class people
… and climate change reversal as two separate tasks. Rather, he says in his 2015 encyclical, " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home ," "Strategies for a solution demand an integrated approach to …
Revise a self-centered spirituality with this daily ecological examen
… they aspire to something on the scale of a new cosmology. Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, " Laudato Si' , On Care for Our Common Home," provides just that: It rereads the Catholic tradition, from …
Prebuttals to the synod have begun, and they don't persuade
… scriptural and doctrinal basis for a Catholic approach to climate issues in his encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home " in a manner that no U.N. committee would have thought …