Sundays spent in nature and a return of year-round meatless Fridays were a few of the ideas floated Nov. 13 at the U.S.

Here are some of the most inspiring quotes from Pope Francis in his new encyclical Dilexit Nos on the divine and human love of the heart of Jesus Christ: A smiling Pope Francis is depicted on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Pompeiian Cult, Caravaggio’s Seven Works of Mercy, and Bronzes Galore in Naples Blitz Bombs the British Empire — Again Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si ...

With financing the major focus here at the United Nations climate change conference, Cardinal Pietro Parolin delivered ...

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 ...

“All of us need to rediscover the importance of the heart,” Pope Francis declares in his fourth ... teaching of the social encyclicals ‘Laudato si’’ and ‘Fratelli Tutti’ is not ...

(RNS) – Pope Francis' fourth encyclical calls on Catholics to contribute to building a church and society focused on human feeling and forgiveness. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Addressing a world ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Addressing a world faced with consumerism, division and artificial intelligence, Pope Francis urged ...