Tag: Laudato Si

In this hyper-consumerist age, fashion trends are more fractured, with social media influencers prompting ever-changing microtrends. But some Christian fashion labels are holding their own, promoting ethical practices as well as the unchanging faith.

People of faith cannot love God while despising his creatures, and people cannot call themselves Christians without caring for everything fragile and wounded, including the earth, Pope Leo XIV told climate activists and political and religious leaders.

Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology—St Francis of Assisi— died the day before Earth Day and about five weeks before the 10th anniversary of his landmark encyclical on care for creation.

One of the great tasks of any successor of Peter is to raise and respond to the great issues of one’s time with a Christ-like heart. Pope Francis did this with his expanded notion of fraternity.

Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical Laudato Si' warned of a world in crisis due to environmental neglect. Ten years later experts say progress has been made—but not nearly enough.

During their fall general assembly 13 November, US Bishops included the suggestion of returning to the church's long-time practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays.

The poor and vulnerable must be front and centre when it comes to climate change policies, said two leading bishops of the Catholic Church in the US and the head of the US church's international humanitarian agency, in a statement issued ahead of the United Nations' annual gathering on climate concerns.

In this Season of Creation we must take seriously Pope Francis’ frustrations with the slow response to the climate crisis and environmental harms to our common home. While much depends on governments, ordinary Catholics can discuss the Holy Father’s teaching and take action in their own lives, writes Sr Maureen Salmon of the Sisters of St Joseph Lochinvar.

At 14 years old, Francisco Vera is different from other teens his age, having already established an initiative with his friends called "Guardians for Life," to advocate for the environment.   

In his message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Francis asked humanity not to become arrogant. He said humans must change from being "predators" of the world to "farmers" of the Earth, which God entrusted to man.

Southern Cross Care NSW & ACT has launched its first action plan inspired by Laudato si', titled Living Care: Plan for People and Planet 2024-2027.

The kit offers practical ways that individuals, families, parishes and schools, can engage with Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment