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How to celebrate a creation-conscious Easter
… and prayer — perhaps "A Prayer for Our Earth" at the end of Pope Francis' encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home." "Teach us to discover the worth of each thing, to be …
Advocates ask Catholics to engage Congress on climate issues following IPCC report
… gas and consumers of oil and gas, we have to accept change," she said. A representative of the Laudato Si' Movement charged that world leaders "are failing to hear the cry of the poor" and called …
Catholic groups call for rapid climate action as UN report warns window is closing fast
… can also draw hope through the actions that are happening, including through the Vatican's Laudato Si' Action Platform that Francis has invited Catholics across the world to join as a way to …
Reclaiming the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition from the culture wars
… from the wider corpus of his writings and his witness. From Aparecida through Lumen Fidei , Laudato Si' , Samaritanus Bonus , to Fratelli Tutti , we hear a polarity — one that Borghesi does not …
Latin American caravan asks Vatican to divest funding from mining corporations
… environmental and social crises facing Latin America and beyond. "As Pope Francis said in Laudato Si' ," added Osorio Arenas, "the crisis is not only ecological, it is an eco-social crisis. That …
Pope Francis taps Cardinal Turkson as chancellor for two Vatican academies
… for the next pope, Turkson was a key drafter of Francis' 2015 environmental encyclical Laudato Si' and has regularly represented the Vatican at the United Nations , the World Economic …
Marquette University bars direct fossil fuel investments with its $929 million endowment
… Marquette president Michael Lovell connected the new policy to Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home," and the Society of Jesus' four universal apostolic …
Cardinal Czerny: Saving creation requires seeing each other as family
… dedicating a series of talks to the pope's 2020 encyclical. The pope's second encyclical, " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home" from 2015, offers a precise picture of the current ecological …
Why the 'Economy of Francesco' can develop a new economics and create a better world
… in their deliberations over the Economy of Francesco. Pope Francis' two recent encyclicals Laudato Si' and Fratelli Tutti are powerful examples of this unique process. In Laudato Si' , Pope …
Ukraine shows we must reject the possibility that war can be just
… full-on Catholic engagement in this urgent paradigm shift. His visionary 2015 encyclical, " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home," his clarion call for ecological conversion and for a "new …
Conference highlights links among climate change, health, racial justice
… an environmental epidemiologist and historian, referencing Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical Laudato Si' . "So that is the goal of fighting against environmental racism, because these communities …