Caring for the environment imparts meaning and purpose (humans must not harm nature in its natural processes), delineates clear heroes and villains (activists and enlightened scientists versus big ...

The new Mass, titled “Mass for the Care of Creation,” is inspired, in part, by Pope Francis’ landmark 2015 encyclical on the environment, “ Laudato Si’,” or “Praise Be To You.” ...

The new Mass, Pro Custodia Creationis (For the Care of Creation), was initially ordered by Pope Francis, who made the environment a major theme of his papacy and the subject of his second ...

We are not one thing and the environment something else that influences us; we are an encounter. From a mesological perspective, Augustin Berque (2000) points out that the relationship between humans ...

Care for creation, the Pope said, is not merely an ethical issue but a theological one, one that is marked by the “act of love” in which God created human beings. “To hope and act with ...

Pope Leo XIV has signaled that creation care will be a key area of interest for him as well and a point of continuity between Leo and his predecessors on social issues, especially the environment ...