A joint initiative from Catholic Climate Covenant and Laudato Si’ Movement to inspire and connect Hispanic Catholics in caring for our common home
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 9, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Catholic Climate Covenant and Laudato Si’ Movement are thrilled to launch the inaugural organizing meeting of the U.S. Hispanic Chapter for Creation Care. This landmark event will occur on Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 3:00 PM CT / 4:00 PM ET on Zoom.
This newly forming community is a dedicated space for dialogue, prayer, discernment, and action inspired by care for our common home. Members will live out the message of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ by responding to our faithful call to care for creation
This virtual gathering is open to parish leaders, lay ministers, clergy, and people of good will who hope to integrate spirituality with impactful actions for our communities and our Common Home. This groundbreaking initiative invites participants to renew their commitment to caring for creation on personal and community-oriented levels, knowing that this “urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change” (Laudato Si’, 13). No matter where someone joins in this kickoff event, all members share the same mission: restoring our relationship with God, with each other, and with the Earth.
This November gathering is the first step on the journey to a larger launch event in May 2027, co-created by November’s participants.
“An admittedly long-neglected partnership with the Hispanic Catholic community is no longer. In collaboration with our global partner, Laudato Si’ Movement, we are tapping the creation care concerns in Hispanic cultures already abundant in spiritual richness, care for each other, and a traditional closeness to Earth,” said Dan Misleh, Executive Director of Catholic Climate Covenant. “We will all be stretched by this partnership in ways that deepen our organizational understanding that ‘all is connected.’”
“We are grateful and energized to collaborate with so many passionate and talented leaders and the Catholic Climate Covenant in building the space for many U.S. Hispanic communities to join together in responding to the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor, for we ‘know that things can change.’ This is a phenomenal new moment in the work of Catholics bringing life to Laudato Si’.” said Anna Johnson, Director of Laudato Si’ Movement – North America.
Register for the Zoom and become a member here. For more information, contact Walter Mena at walter@catholicclimatecovenant.org or Maria Treviño at maria@laudatosimovement.org. For media inquiries, contact Katie Zakrzewski at katie@catholicclimatecovenant.org or Amy Rini at amy@laudatosimovement.org.
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CONTACT:
Katie Zakrzewski
Communications Manager | Catholic Climate Covenant
katie@catholicclimatecovenant.org
Amy Rini
North America Communications Officer| Laudato Si’ Movement
amy@laudatosimovement.org
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