Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos When, in the final chapter of his much-discussed encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis calls for an ecological education, this might seem to be an afterthought ...

Pope Francis' Laudato Si' offers a contemporary vision of the whole world being wrapped up in, and expressive of, God's unmerited, ongoing offer of love. Paul Melley offers his own musical compostion ...

Pope Francis on Sunday urged leaders taking part in the COP29 climate summit opening Monday in the capital of Azerbaijan Baku ...

That may be – but should we bet the planet on it? It seems to me that what Pope Francis is doing is hijacking ecological catastrophism for a pre-determined spiritual agenda. And that agenda isn ...

In 2015, two of the landmark documents of our time were institutionalized: the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’. They represent two different ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A world that has become “heartless” and indifferent to greed and war, and a Catholic Church in need of ...

Pope Francis has the distinction of being one of ... an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose.” And his Laudato si’ encyclical calling for “swift and unified global action ...

Dilexit nos will be Pope Francis' fourth encyclical, following Lumen fidei (June 29, 2013), co-written with Benedict XVI; Laudato si' (May 24, 2015), on the environmental crisis and the need for ...

This vision also connects directly to previous social encyclicals by Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti, presenting Christ’s love as the foundation for addressing and solving ...

The eBook companion to Pope Francis' Laudato Si', from National Catholic Reporter Senior Analyst Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ. Learn more. This eBook is a collection of 25 of the best spirituality essays ...

The #Saints are precious pearls and are always living and relevant, because they provide a fascinating commentary on the Gospel. Their lives are an illustration of the Good News that Jesus brought to ...

This vision also connects directly to previous social encyclicals by Pope Francis, Laudato Si and Fratelli Tutti, presenting Christ’s love as the foundation for addressing and solving ...