On June 18, Pope Francis issued a world-wide encyclical on ecology, environmental destruction, and climate change. The highly anticipated document, intended to spur reflection and action among the ...

Explore Laudato Si', Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, with this complimentary guide from Jesuit Fr. Tom Reese. To access the guide, sign up for the EarthBeat Weekly e-newsletter.

In 2015, two of the landmark documents of our time were institutionalized: the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’. They represent two different ...

The Center for Sustainability and Division of Mission and Ministry are proud to present a Sustainability Action Plan that takes us through 2030, inspired by the Pope's encyclical Laudato Si’. It will ...

In the encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis calls us to attend to this dynamic—the destabilization and instrumentalization of our natural world and oppression of those most vulnerable, within a ...

I admit, I have been unable to finish reading the big papal encyclical on the environment and climate change. So if the tone or argument changes radically part-way through, forgive me for getting ...