Living ‘Laudato Si’ on an Urban Farm in Tennessee
COMMENTARY: As I worked to put my family’s existence into better harmony with nature, something even better happened — I started to feel myself closer to God.
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Celebrating Creation Day and ‘The Canticle of Brother Sun’
COMMENTARY: St. Francis of Assisi’s prayer to the Author of Life offers ample inspiration to celebrate this day.
Thomas Aquinas College Answers Pope’s Call, Goes Off Grid With Green Energy Plan
Enterprising alternative-energy program launches in Santa Paula, California inspired by Pope Francis’ ‘Laudato Si’
‘Laudate Deum’ and an Update on the Synod on Synodality (Oct. 7)
Eight years after Pope Francis published his encyclical, Laudato Si, warning about the threats of climate change, the Holy Father has issued a new document on the environment, Laudate Deum. This week on Register Radio, we talk with Register contributor Father Raymond De Souza about Francis’ vision for ecology. And then, this week the Pope officially opened the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, better known as the Synod on Synodality, in the Vatican, and the participants went right to work. Catholics are asking: What will the next weeks bring? We are joined by Register Senior Editor Jonathan Liedl with the latest.
Pope Francis Issues New Call for Dramatic Climate-Change Measures
On the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis releases a new document on the environment.
Pope Francis to Release Second Laudato Si’ on Oct. 4
The Season of Creation will begin, Pope Francis said, on Sept. 1, which is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
Pope Francis Writing a Second Environmental Document After ‘Laudato Si’
The document addresses issues such as climate change, care for the environment, and the defense of human life and dignity.
Jesuit University Divests From Fossil Fuels after a Six-Year Process
The Catholic Church has over the centuries pronounced definitively on a wide variety of moral topics such as abortion, murder, sexual ethics, and charity. Its mandates on environmentalism in general — and divestment in particular — are comparatively sparser.
Embracing Pope Francis’ ‘Laudato Si’ Means Rejecting Gender Theory
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.
CUA Architecture Students Create Sustainable Housing Designs to Assist Women in Crisis Pregnancies
With ‘Laudato Si’ in mind, ‘We’re trying to design a space that’s curated to the human person and the dignity they have ...’
