VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis launched Tuesday the Vatican’s seven-year Laudato si’ action plan to implement environmental sustainability in different sectors of the Church from religious orders to ...

COMMENTARY: If ‘everything is connected,’ we cannot uphold the Holy Father’s teaching on respecting the integrity of creation while rejecting the givenness of our sexually-differentiated bodies. Pope ...

Nearly two years after publication of Pope Francis' landmark encyclical Laudato Si', a global Catholic campaign hopes to recruit 1 million Catholics to keep its message alive and animated in the daily ...

“Laudato Si’,” which celebrated its 10th anniversary on May 24, will surely stand among the most important components of Pope Francis’ legacy. The encyclical neatly laid out the church’s concerns ...

The Vatican’s College of Cardinals will soon gather in Rome to elect a new head of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. As the church prepares for the papal conclave, the world is ...

Pope Leo XIV pets a horse during the inauguration of the Borgo Laudato Si project in Castel Gandolfo Sept. 5, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) ROME – Pope Leo XIV inaugurated a new Vatican environmental ...

I had been wanting to write this post for a long time but hadn’t done so out of fear of being controversial. However, lately I have come to the realization that the only one whom I should please, and ...

NEW YORK – Following goals laid out by Laudato Si’, a new “Care for Creation” ministry in the Archdiocese of Seattle, Washington, will aim to educate local Catholics about the environment, and inspire ...

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 ...

In 2015, someone gave me a copy of Laudato Si' and it changed my life. I was a junior at a public college, majoring in physics and religious studies, and I was the only Christian I knew who cared ...

Humanity. Environment. Sustainability. Laudato si’ (Italian for “Praise Be to You”) is a landmark encyclical letter written by the late Pope Francis, published in June 2015. It is subtitled “On Care ...