Virtual series to highlight ecological Church teachings and practices this summer
Washington, DC – Catholic Climate Covenant announced registration is now open for the 2023 Laudato Si’and the U.S. Catholic Church national conference, to be held in June and July.
When the Oscars were announced this year, “The Letter: A Message For Our Earth,” which “stars” Pope Francis and five ecological activists, didn’t make the cut. But you could make a strong case that the 80-minute documentary inspired by the papal encyclical Laudato Si’ is the most spiritually and ecologically significant film released last year.
On March 13th, 2023, the world will celebrate 10 years of Pope Francis leading our global Church. Catholic Climate Covenant joins in this worldwide celebration and is honored and grateful to have in Pope Francis a true champion for Creation.
We are often asked what can we do to help slow climate change?
St. James Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago takes walking seriously, much like the pilgrims devoted to its patron saint. And while a new Laudato Si’-inspired labyrinth the parish is planning won’t be nearly as long as the famed Camino de Santiago, it can still be a source of spiritual sustenance, parish leaders said.
“We want it to be a place where people can come and experience grace,” said Amy Pellettiere, the Vitality Coordinator at St. James, “even amidst all of the noise and busyness of the city.”
In fall of 2021, the California Conference of Catholic Bishops made the exciting decision to participate in the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, sending a clear message about the importance of creation care that surely came as cause for celebration for the many Catholics across the state who have long been working to protect our common home and its most vulnerable members.
Today in Rome, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development launched the much awaited enrollment phase of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform.
As we reel from one crisis to another, 2020 is turning out to be a threshold moment that is challenging us all at once to focus on what is required to build a better world together – for all of us, and for future generations.
Participants in a May 29, 2020, Zoom dialogue about "Laudato Si After Five Years: Hearing the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor" discussed five years of Laudato Si' They are Kim Daniels of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University; Christiana Zenner of Fordham University; Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development; Dan Misleh of Catholic Climate Covenant ; and Kim Wasserman of Little Village Environmental Justice Organization.