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Pope Francis is among the most significant religious leaders in the world. But even he can’t bend the emissions curve on his own.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical says irresponsible lifestyles are the biggest impediment to reducing carbon emissions

In 2015 Pope Francis issued Laudato Si’, a major encyclical on the environment offering a hopeful vision that challenged us all to better care for “our common home.” On October 4, 2023, Pope Francis will release Laudate Deum, an unprecedented follow-up document to highlight the urgent need for a more sustained response to the ecological […]

The Biden administration has made a bid to support both clean energy and jobs for young people with the creation of the American Climate Corps -- a new plan the White House described Sept. 20 as a "workforce training and service initiative that will ensure more young people have access to the skills-based training necessary for good-paying careers in the clean energy and climate resilience economy."

Pope Francis referenced the recent heat headlines during his July 23 Sunday Angelus message in Rome, making a global plea

More than 80 million Americans are currently under dangerous heat advisories.

The invitation of Laudato Si' is not only to identify the closeness of the relationship between the cries of the Earth and the poor, but also to discern how persons and communities of faith can and are giving of their lives in response to the cries.

Perhaps the strongest message to emerge from Villanova University's April 18 Second Annual Anti-Poverty Symposium — "Unitas in Action: Fighting Poverty and Living Sustainably" — is that the intersection between poverty and environmental destruction is no coincidence. In the global chain of pollution and profit, poor communities are almost always adversely and disproportionately impacted.

"With Benedict XVI, we had not only strong theology ... but we also had strong actions": Theologians say part of the late pope's legacy will be his teachings that rooted environmental concerns in Catholic tradition.