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Vatican's major sustainability campaign the main focus of Laudato Si' Week 2022
… Brian Roewe … The Vatican is placing its flagship sustainability push, the Laudato Si' Action Platform, front and center during Laudato Si' Week 2022, with the hope that a …
9 million people die annually from 'overlooked' threat of pollution, says new health study
… can't go on," he said. "There's going to come a point of no return." In his 2015 encyclical, " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home," Francis bemoaned how "some forms of pollution are part of …
Brazil's bishops raise their voices against mining on Indigenous land
… that the local communities had not studied Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si' . "We organized meetings with all of our parishes and read it together. Later, we established …
Faced with bishops' inaction, Canadian woman develops eco-investment toolkit
… new challenges; I like challenging myself, '' said Richard, coordinator with the Mouvement Laudato Si' Movement Canada (which is a program partner of Faith & the Common Good ) and co-creator of …
Laudato Si' Week
… Laudato Si’ Week 2022, to be held May 22-29, will mark the seventh anniversary of Pope Francis’ … Action Platform, walking the "Synodal" path. A full schedule of events can be found at the Laudato Si' Week website . …
Catholic campaign encounters senators to save half-trillion-dollar climate legislation
… Our Common Home" campaign draws inspiration from Pope Francis' words in his 2015 encyclical, " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home," in which the pope stated that "True statecraft is manifest, …
We must choose leaders who take all threats to life seriously, including climate change
… is immoral. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, quoted by Pope Francis in his 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home," even called it a sin. The Vatican has made clear that …
Press bishops to commit to net-zero dioceses, climate panel urges young Catholics
… 2019 — a period spanning one year before and four after Pope Francis issued his encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home" — found less than 1%, or 93, mentioned climate change. In …
Young Africans engage in local and global climate conversations through Catholic youth network
… 2011 with like-minded friends. Catholic teaching, especially Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home," helped the network to connect faith and environmental …
Cardinal Czerny: Sustainable development must put solidarity and human rights first
… the laity. The conversations among the panelists drew heavily from Francis' two encyclicals, " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home" and Fratelli Tutti . Among the participants were Anne Leahy, …
At Earth Day checkpoint, Vatican's bold Laudato Si' initiative plants seeds of sustainability in the church
… of Sorrows Church, in Tucson, Arizona, immediately knew they wanted to get involved with the Laudato Si' Action Platform, the Vatican's major effort to move the global church toward sustainability …