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Working groups help Vatican prepare Laudato Si' Action Platform for launch
… Brian Roewe … The months leading up to the Vatican's unveiling of its Laudato Si' Action Platform in late May were filled with meetings among many people around the …
Pope Francis lends support to UN effort to restore degraded ecosystems
… In late May, Francis and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development previewed the Laudato Si' Action Platform , which aims to mobilize Catholics and church institutions to act on the …
US Bishops try to rein in the Biden administration, but the Vatican is all smiles
… the pope's grumpy photo op with Trump in 2017, when Francis gave the then-president a copy of Laudato si’, his encyclical on climate change. If Trump read it, it didn’t take: A little more than a …
Drought parching western U.S. brings water shortages, wildfires
… price tag, but it includes $80 billion for water systems. Pope Francis, in his encyclical " Laudato Si' " — the sixth anniversary of its promulgation was May 24 — devoted an entire section to "the …
Vatican helps get water to hospitals in the 'Global South'
… focus of a four-day conference last week in Rome. It was opened on May 24 at the close of the "Laudato si' Special Anniversary Year," named after Pope Francis' 2015 ecological encyclical "on care for …
EarthBeat Weekly: How to shrink our pandemic-fueled digital environmental footprints
… to Pope Francis' call to implement the principles and values set out in his 2015 encyclical, " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home." On May 25, the Vatican launched a long-awaited program for …
Human Rights and the Vulnerabilities of Gender in a Climate Emergency
… the inequalities and vulnerabilities that become more stark with every passing decade. Laudato Si’ has injected a new sense of purpose and direction into the global response to the …
Women, Solidarity, and Ecology Conference
… is open through May 31 for the Women, Solidarity and Ecology Conference sponsored by the Laudato Si' Research Institute at the University of Oxford in England from June 2 through 4. This …
Pope Francis launches program to put Laudato Si' into action throughout church
… conference where the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development introduced the Laudato Si' Action Platform. The ambitious churchwide initiative outlines seven categories of …
Faith-based groups welcome wider dialogue on climate with government
… Their efforts gained additional momentum as the global Catholic Church observed Laudato Si' Week May 16-25 with online and local events. The week closes the special Laudato Si' …
Pentecost is a time to remember the Holy Spirit's presence throughout all creation
… is forgotten." For this reason, I am especially grateful that Pope Francis has scheduled Laudato Si' Week 2021 — a time set aside to celebrate the anniversary of the encyclical's promulgation …