Catholic Climate Covenant is grounded in the Church's deep history of teaching on creation, ecology, and the poor. Catholics care about climate change and they're working hard to create solutions. Catholic Climate Covenant is at the center of these U.S. Catholic efforts through resources, teachings, advocacy efforts, and our signature programs for parishes, families, schools, young people, religious orders, and many others. Our programs include:
We lift a united U.S. Catholic voice to support sensible, faith-informed climate public policies. We work with broad U.S. Catholic coalitions on advocacy campaigns urging government and Church leaders to support climate solutions from a place of faith and reason.
After the release of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si’, Catholic Climate Covenant developed Catholic Energies to help Catholic facilities, including parishes, schools, and healthcare facilities, take real steps to reduce their energy consumption and costs.
Creation Care Teams enable committed Catholics to work to solve climate change together. Whether it’s a group from your parish, workplace, or school, Creation Care Teams unite people to make a difference, be sustainable, and advocate for climate policies in the community.
Catholic Climate Covenant’s signature Earth Day program each year picks a theme related to creation care. The educational and prayer program is always interactive and the perfect way for families, parishes, schools, and religious communities to learn, connect, and act.
This annual program released during Season of Creation is a 90-minute program that contains prayers, readings, reflection/discussion questions, a short video, and exercises or suggested activities – all helping us connect to creation care inspired by St. Francis and our faith.
At Catholic Climate Covenant, we’re building a movement of young Catholics (high school, college, and beyond) ignited by the joy of the Gospel, attuned to the cries of the earth and the poor, capable of turning back the clock on climate change.
We’re All Part of God’s Plan(et) is a national Laudato Si’ awareness and engagement campaign to educate and inspire U.S. Catholics to more fully embrace and act upon the teachings of Laudato Si’, and participate in the Vatican’s global Laudato Si’ Action Platform.
The Wholemakers curriculum weaves together the latest climate science with insights from the Catholic tradition to equip young Catholics to be the faithful protagonists of transformation the world needs.
This declaration expresses the U.S. Catholic community’s call to climate action, arising from our theological foundation, proclaimed to all within our one human family. From this call we envision, pray for, and act towards a thriving future, with our family and the gift of God’s creation.
Ways to Get Involved
Advocacy
We lift a united Catholic voice to support sensible, faith-informed climate public policies.
Catholic Energies
In response to the release of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si’, the Catholic Climate Covenant developed Catholic Energies to help Catholic campuses, including parishes, schools, healthcare facilities, and other buildings take meaningful and measurable steps to reduce their energy consumption and costs.
Catholic Climate Ambassadors
Catholic Climate Ambassadors deliver Catholic teaching on climate change to local audiences around the country. Each ambassador is well versed in the deep history of Catholic teaching about ecology, and brings a wealth of individual experiences from organic farming to religious vocation to geoscience to inform its application.
Hope for Creation
A Virtual Celebration of Earth Day and Laudato Si’ . Submit prayers, meditations, stories, statements, reflections, art, photos, poems, songs, videos, etc. that lift up your love and hope for God’s creation!
Creation Care Teams
Creation Care teams enable committed Catholics to lead the charge to solve climate change—together. We achieve more together, and united action is at the heart of this program. Whether it’s a group from your parish, workplace, or school, your Creation Care team unites the people around you. You’ll work to make a difference, create more sustainable facilities, and advocate for faith-informed climate policies.
Youth and Young Adult Mobilization
In our colleges and universities, community organizations, high schools and grade schools, volunteer programs, and the pews, young people are already demonstrating a willingness “to change, to turn back, get up and learn from life” when it comes to creation care. At Catholic Climate Covenant, we’re interested in nothing short of building a movement of young Catholics ignited by the joy of the Gospel, attuned to the cries of the earth and the poor, capable of turning back the clock on climate change.
St. Francis Pledge
Take the St. Francis/Laudato Si’ Pledge to care for creation and the poor "I pledge to pray, live, and advocate Laudato Si'" Take the St. Francis/Laudato Si' Pledge to follow in the footsteps of Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home.
Feast of St. Francis
The Covenant’s 2021 Feast of St. Francis educational 90-minute program enables U.S. Catholics to host in-person or virtual sessions to grow in their understanding and call to care for creation as integral to the Catholic faith through prayer, education and action.
Earth Day
Earth Day 2022: Integral Ecology This year’s Earth Day program theme is “Integral Ecology: Pursuing the Common Good for Our Common Home”, a theme that helps us connect a variety of issues that relate to creation care. The approximately one-hour educational and prayer program is the perfect way for our families, parishes, schools, and religious communities to explore the concept of integral ecology and the common good.