COMMENTARY: It is essential that this exhortation, which is a different kind of papal document, be read together with the Holy Father’s 2015 encyclical. The environmental exhortation by Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis' latest plea to urgently address global warming and climate change is being hailed by Catholic ecological advocates as "a great call to action." On Oct. 4, the pope released his apostolic ...

Pope Francis’ new document on the environment, to be released Oct. 4, will be called Laudate Deum. The Pope shared the name of his latest apostolic exhortation during a meeting with Latin American ...

Atop one of the highest hills in the Vatican Gardens, surrounded by green lawns, rose trellises, butterflies and green parrots, a panel of activists and a Nobel-prize winning physicist gathered to ...

Paragraph 69: "I ask everyone to accompany this pilgrimage of reconciliation with the world that is our home and to help make it more beautiful, because that commitment has to do with our personal ...

First time a high level papal document has focused exclusively on climate change GLAND, Switzerland (4 October 2023) – Today, Pope Francis published a new Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum, ...

(RNS) — On the feast of St. Francis this year (Oct. 4), Pope Francis released his latest apostolic exhortation, “Laudate Deum.” Many of us who work in applied Catholic moral theology were quite ...

A recent teaching document issued by Pope Francis, Laudate Deum (Praise God) has been aggressively promoted by the media for its focus on climate change, especially for the Pope’s criticism of the ...

A climate activist wearing a protective mask protests June 8, 2023, while smoke and haze caused by wildfires in Canada pass through New York City. (OSV News photo/Amr Alfiky, Reuters) As word ...

Atop one of the highest hills in the Vatican Gardens, surrounded by green lawns, rose trellises, butterflies and green parrots, a panel of activists and a Nobel-prize-winning physicist gathered to ...