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US waterways polluted with injustice, bishops say in Season of Creation message
… that he will issue on Oct. 4 an apostolic exhortation updating his landmark encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home" to reflect on the extreme weather facing vast parts of the …
Pope Francis' new environmental exhortation to be released on Oct. 4
… a follow-up document on the environment on Oct. 4, providing an update to his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si' , On Care for Our Common Home" — a landmark papal letter that offered a rallying cry for …
Laudato Si' Animators Program forms Catholic advocates for ecological conversion
… climate change and other environmental factors on public health around the world. Becoming a Laudato Si' Animator has helped him unite faith and action with his knowledge and experience, Thompson …
Editorial: Climate action requires interfaith collaboration
… will be the focus of Pope Francis' reported update to his landmark ecological encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home." In 2021 ahead of the United Nations climate change conference …
Pope tells lawyers he's writing a new document on the environment
… Francis said he was preparing another document on the subject. "I am writing a second part to Laudato Si' to update it on current problems," the pope told the lawyers Aug. 21 during a meeting in the …
Why Catholics should divest from plastic in their closets
… holy, much as we're called to keep the Sabbath holy. Indeed, Pope Francis' papal encyclical " Laudato Si' , On Care for Our Common Home," names the climate as a "common good, belonging to all and …
If the synod isn't a parliament, voting should be dropped
… the synod. I am drawing from a recent experience I had of social dialogue, as envisioned in " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home " and Fratelli Tutti , but in a predominantly secular context: …
Local clergy help clean up Africa's largest freshwater lake
… church must move with speed to free our water sources from garbage." In his 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si ', On Care for Our Common Home," Pope Francis says conserving the ecosystem and fighting …
Going to the people and sowing the seeds of kingdom values
… are practiced by many households. Usually, the production remains for domestic purposes. " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home, " published on May 24, 2015, as the second encyclical of Pope …
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 …