‘Laudate Deum’: Pope Francis’ ‘Laudato Si’ Companion Piece on the Environment
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National Catholic Register ^
| October 4, 2023 | Father Raymond J. de Souza
‘Laudate Deum’: Pope Francis’ ‘Laudato Si’ Companion Piece on the EnvironmentPope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum (Praise God), is a personal, impassioned public-policy plea for action on the “climate crisis.” Laudate
Deum was issued on Oct. 4, feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Less than 8,000 words in English, it is written in the style of a political manifesto rather than a magisterial document. Given that the original language was Spanish, not Italian, it can be presumed that Pope Francis took a direct hand in its drafting. Pope Francis makes definitive declarations on climate science, predictions about future weather-related...
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[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Writing a Second Environmental Document After ‘Laudato Si’
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National Catholic Register ^
| August 21, 2023 | Hannah Brockhaus
[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Writing a Second Environmental Document After ‘Laudato Si’Pope Francis announced during an audience with lawyers Monday that he is writing a second part to his 2015 environmental encyclical Laudato si’.The Pope said with this new writing, coming soon, he is updating Laudato si’ to cover current issues, possibly
including war. He made the statement on the morning of Aug. 21, at the end of a speech to lawyers from the Council of Europe member states that signed the Vienna Declaration on the Support of the Rule of Law in 2022.Laudato si’ is the second of three...
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Pope Enlists Filmmaker to Spread Message of 'Laudato Si'
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UCANews ^
| 12/8/22
Pope Francis is getting more non-Catholics to do his work. The
latest is Nicolas Brown, who directed "The Letter: A Message for Our Earth," a documentary on the pope's 2015 encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home."The 90-minute film will air Wednesday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings). But for those who can't wait that long, the documentary is already on YouTube, which helped produce it. "We decided to make this film and not put it behind a paywall. We purposely did not go to Netflix and put it behind the reach of...
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Church's multiyear initiatives on synodality, Laudato Si' and Eucharist intertwine
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National Catholic Reporter ^
| February 15, 2022 | Brian Roewe
Church's multiyear initiatives on synodality, Laudato Si' and Eucharist intertwineThis article appears in the Synod on Synodality feature series.In a span of several weeks last fall, three large initiatives landed on the doorsteps of U.S. Catholic dioceses, parishes, congregations and organizations.Beginning in October, Pope Francis opened the synod on synodality, a two-year
engagement of the global church focused on listening and encounter. A month later, the Vatican officially launched its Laudato Si' Action Platform, which invites all parts of the church to take up seven-year programs to adopt sustainable and ecologically friendly practices. And just days after that, the U.S....
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Church in Ghana Launches 5-Year Laudato sí Action Programme
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Vatican News ^
| 11/22/21 | Benedict Mayaki SJ
The Laudato sí Action Programme, an initiative of the Bishops Conference of Ghana (GCBC) will run from 2022-2026. Archbishop
Charles Palmer-Buckle of Cape Coast stresses the importance of changing our mindset from an attitude of exploiting to one of caring for and protecting our common home.The Bishops of Ghana, inspired by Pope Francis’ teachings in his Encyclical on the care of our common home, have put together a 5-year Laudato sí Action Programme scheduled to run from 2022 to 2026. The Action Programme, which will be formally launched on 24 November, is positioned to be the Ghanaian Church’s response to...
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Laudato Si’ Action Platform Set to Integrate Encyclical Into Church Life
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Catholic Philly ^
| 11/15/21 | Dennis Sadowski
The Vatican’s seven-year plan to widen the reach of Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on the environment is just what the church needs in a time of global climate change in the mind of Father Emmet Farrell, a retired priest living in San Diego. “The church is very serious about what we need
to do to address climate change,” Father Farrell, volunteer director of the Creation Care Ministry of the Diocese of San Diego, said of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform that launched Nov. 14. The pope introduced the initiative in a video May 25, asking the world to join a...
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Vatican Launches Prayer Campaign for ‘Laudato Si” Goals
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Our Sunday Visitor ^
| 10/3/21 | Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Groups and individuals who have accepted Pope Francis’ invitation to step up their commitment to caring for creation are encouraged to prepare for their journey with a new prayer campaign. Special
prayers have been developed for each day of the week for different communities, like parishes, dioceses, religious orders, families, hospitals, schools, businesses and others, that have joined the Laudato Si’ Action Platform. The 40-day prayer campaign begins Oct. 4 — the feast of St. Francis — and concludes Nov. 14 — the World Day of Prayer for the Poor. The Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral...
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EarthBeat Weekly: How can ordinary Catholics live out Laudato Si'?
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National Catholic Reporter ^
| June 25, 2021 | Barbara Fraser
EarthBeat Weekly: How can ordinary Catholics live out Laudato Si'?"So what can ordinary Catholics do about climate change?"That's a question that pops into the EarthBeat inbox from time to time. Environmental
issues, especially climate change, often appear so overwhelming that our own actions seem insignificant.But they're not. In his 2015 encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," Pope Francis made it clear that slowing global warming requires systemic change, but it will also take the efforts of all of us to care for our common home.When I asked recently what issues our readers would like to see more...
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Vatican Launches ‘Action Plan’ to Promote Laudato Si’
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Catholic Culture ^
| 5/25/21
The Vatican has unveiled a 7-year “action platform” to generate environmental action, as suggested by the encyclical Laudato Si’. The “action program” was announced by dicastery for Integral Human Development on May 25, as the Vatican concluded a year devoted to the encyclical, which was published by Pope Francis in 2015. Pope
Francis, who has strongly urged concrete action to support his encyclical, said that such initiatives are needed in the face of “an ecological crisis without precedent.” In a statement welcoming the Laudato Si’ Action Platform (LSAP), he said that the earth “that hosts us suffers as a result...
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Laudato si' Way of the Cross in preparation for Easter
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Vatican News ^
| March 23, 2021 | Asia Galvani
Laudato si' Way of the Cross in preparation for EasterReinterpreting the Lenten devotion of the Way of the Cross in the light of Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the care of our common home. This
initiative was born from a collaboration, sharing and personal awareness: a journey that includes the experiences and reflections generated by the need to pray during the Covid lockdown. These reflections were co-authored by members of the Global Catholic Climate Movement and by Cube Radio, the official radio station of the Salesian University Institute of Venice and Verona. ....
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Laudato si’ Bears Fruit: from the Living Chapel, New Trees for the World
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Vatican News ^
| 12/1/20 | Giada Aquilino
A work of art constructed with plants, recycled material and musical harmony aims to reforest the planet, beginning in the heart of Rome, in support of the UN’s Trillion Tree Campaign. It is the Living Chapel in the Botanical Garden, a concrete fruit of the commitment to creation proposed by Pope Francis
in “Laudato si’”. With us are Consuelo Fabriani and Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam.Australian-Canadian composer Julian Darius Revie was deeply impressed upon reading Pope Francis’s Encyclical Laudato si’. Already in 2015 he took to heart the exhortation to rediscover “harmony between humankind and nature” and reflected on how that...
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Laudato si Garden to Debut October 4
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Zenit News Agency ^
| 9/30/20 | Staff
Promoted by 7 Cities and Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human DevelopmentA “Laudato si Garden'” in the heart of the Veneto Regional Park of the Po Delta. This project, inspired by Laudato Si’, is part of the celebrations for the Laudato Si’ Anniversary Year, announced by the Pope, which will be presented on
October 4th in Rosolina (Rovigo), promoted by seven municipalities in the area (in addition to Rosolina, Ariano nel Polesine, Corbola, Loreo, Porto Viro, Porto Tolle, Taglio di Po), the Veneto Region and Veneto Agricoltura, as well as the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Holy See. The “Laudato...
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[Barf Alert] US bishops' anti-poverty program puts Laudato Si' into action with $500,000 grant
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Nattional Catholic Reporter ^
| July 23, 2020 | Brian Roewe
[Barf Alert] US bishops' anti-poverty program puts Laudato Si' into action with $500,000 grant The U.S. bishops' anti-poverty arm awarded a $500,000 grant to act on Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" by helping low-income communities in the South cope with and overcome the impacts of climate
change. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the domestic anti-poverty program of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, announced July 22 it had approved a $500,000 national grant to assist low-income people in the Southeast "to overcome the impacts and address the root causes of climate change"...
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Vatican Renews Call to Divest of Fossil Fuels, Supporting ”Laudato si”
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Aleteia ^
| 6/20/20 | J-P Mauro
The new book will serve as a manual for implementing environmental and social change. Five
years after the release of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical, “Laudato si’,” the Vatican has renewed its call to action, imploring Catholics to divest themselves from all fossil fuel-related investments. The directives were published in a new book, Journeying Towards Care for Our Common Home, which will act as a manual for implementing the pope’s environmental initiatives. Gerard O’Connell of America Magazine reports that the book was announced by Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States, in a June 18 press conference. The prelate described...
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Vatican Urges Catholics Into Action on Pope Francis’ Laudato si’
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Catholic News Agency ^
| 6/18/20 | Hannah Brockhaus
Vatican City, Jun 18, 2020 / 09:00 am MT (CNA).- With a new 200-page document, the Vatican is encouraging Catholics to put their faith into action to promote integral ecology and care of creation, following the inspiration of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’. The
introduction of On the Journey for Care of the Common Home says “the intention is to offer an orientation to the action of Catholics (but not only) in the secular dimension and to ask every Christian to examine their own behavior, also in everyday life…” The document was presented June 18 in Italian. The booklet will...
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At Five-Year Mark for ‘Laudato Si,’ Vatican Offers a ‘Users Guide’
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Crux ^
| 6/18/20 | Elise Ann Allen
ROME – To mark the five-year anniversary of Pope Francis’s eco-encyclical, Laudato Si, the Vatican Thursday published a “users guide” for both parishes and public officials on how to implement the document, including such concrete measures as a balanced diet, carpooling to reduce energy consumption, recycling, and “drip-by-drip” irrigation to curb water
waste. The document also calls on legislators and governments to adopt eco-friendly policies, such as enshrining water as a “universal human right” and promoting international efforts to protect vulnerable ecosystems such as the Amazon and the Congo River Basin. In keeping with Pope Francis’s view of “integral ecology,”...
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Laudato Si’ at Five: Dioceses Embrace Pope’s Call for Care of the Earth
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Crux ^
| 5/20/20 | Dennis Sadowski
CLEVELAND - The Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is “greening.” So
are the dioceses of Stockton, California; Joliet, Illinois; and others across the United States. Participants in diocesan environmental ministries credit Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home, for raising awareness and motivating Catholics and others to act in countless ways to protect creation. “The pope’s encyclical lays out the scene very well and is something we can have an impact with,” said John Mundell, an environmental consultant and a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis, who is a leader...
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[Barf Alert] Special Year of Laudato Si' - Care For Our Common Home
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Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. ^
| May 27, 2020 | Fr. John Dakes
[Barf Alert] Special Year of Laudato Si' - Care For Our Common Home Dear Friends, This past Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato Si’, his call for the care of the earth and the poor. As
part of the anniversary our Holy Father announced a special Year of Laudato Si’, which will run through May 24, 2021. It will be a year to reflect on the encyclical letter. Announcing the year, he invited "all persons of goodwill to adhere to it, to take care of our common home and our more fragile brothers and sisters." As part of...
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Season of Creation to Take Place During Special Laudato Si’ Year
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Vatican News ^
| 5/25/20 | Devin Watkins
As the Laudato Si’ Anniversary Year gets underway, the Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development urges Catholics to take part in the annual Season of Creation.The Season of Creation is an annual ecumenical celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home. It
takes place from 1 September – the World Day of Prayer for Creation – to 4 October – the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Christians of all traditions are invited to take part by organizing prayer services, community litter clean-ups, or advocacy actions. Special invitationThis year’s event takes place within the context...
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[Gag Alert] In the Year of “Laudato Si’” It’s Party Time for Everyone, Except for “My Lord”
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L'Espresso ^
| May 25, 2020 | Sandro Magister
[Gag Alert] In the Year of “Laudato Si’” It’s Party Time for Everyone, Except for “My Lord” In these times of global shortages, those who hold the purse strings in the Vatican - the Jesuit Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves and Cardinal Reinhard Marx, prefects respectively of the secretariat for the economy and
of the council for the economy - have issued urgent calls to the heads of the curia to be “sober” and to “cut the costs of conferences, travel abroad, external consultancy.”But the celebrations for “Laudato Si’” are evidently an exception. Yesterday, Sunday May 24, the fifth birthday of...
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