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The Common Good Requires Action On Climate Change

Henry Karlson, Patheos The world we live in, the Earth, is our common home. We should be working to protect it from harm, making sure it is not defiled by pollution or other forms...

Pope asks Catholics to acknowledge 'unfaithful' attitudes for care of creation

Celebrating a new form of the Catholic Mass "for the care of creation," Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to contemplate nature as well as the ways they have shirked their responsibilit...

Mass for care of creation ready for US churches after Vatican finalizes translations

The Mass for safeguarding the environment that Pope Leo XIV first celebrated last summer is now available for Catholic churches in the U.S., just in time for the upcoming ecumenica...

Pray with the Pope | For the care of water

Seek peace and care for creation, Pope urges in message for upcoming world day of prayer Headlines

Seek peace and care for creation, Pope urges in message for upcoming world day of prayer Headlines

A New Sin: Ecological Sin. Vatican Office Publishes Document Addressing Sins Against Creation

The document, Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Triune God, runs to more than 29,000 words and was developed by a subcommission that worked be...

Young African Catholics say faith inspires their fight against climate change

Across East Africa, young Catholics are transforming Pope Francis' call to care for creation into climate education and advocacy, arguing that protecting the environment is as much...

Conversion of heart needed to end wars, heal Earth, pope says

War and environmental destruction are not just political failures, but symptoms of a deep moral crisis in the human heart, Pope Leo XIV said in his message for the 2026 World Day o...

This Earth Is My Home

By Edward Reifsnyder |  17 August 2026  | I attended Union Springs Academy in upstate New York—smack-dab in the middle of the “burned-over district” of the mid-1800s. New religions...

During the Season of Creation, remember the living water that sustains all life

That water is a symbol of healing and renewal makes a lot of sense. Most of our human bodies are made up of water, and all other creatures also require water for survival. But we h...

August 30, 2026: Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Scripture for Life - The prophetic work of justice today entails addressing the oppression done to the natural world, its many communities of life, and injustices within the human...

Vatican document revives the heretical ideas of Teilhard de Chardin

'Caring for Our Common Home' endorses 'panentheism' as a new way to understand God’s relationship with the world, an idea previously rejected by the Church.

What Planting Trees in Ghana Reveals about Loving Our Neighbor

A village in Ghana’s cocoa belt shows how planting and protecting trees can restore more than forests; it can help provide clean water, dignity, and hope for families. This article...

Vatican claims Mass is ‘ecological school’ in ‘climate change’ document

The Vatican’s International Theological Commission said the Eucharist can lead to ‘the ecological conversion that we so urgently need to undertake as a human family,’ in a new docu...

World Council of Churches to join Season of Creation

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches will observe the Season of Creation, a worldwide ecumenical Christian observance that begins with the Feast of Creation on...

Catholic groups urge EPA to halt actions that devalue human life, God’s creation

Along Constitution Avenue in Washington, roughly two dozen Catholics gathered a week ago for a prayer service outside the headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....

“Faith Leaders” Call for Global Climate Action

“Faith Leaders” Call for Global Climate Action Religions for Peace has released a World Environment Day 2026 statement urging religious leaders from every major faith tradition to...

A Franciscan sister journeyed to the Arctic. She found a land teeming with life.

With oil drilling threats looming in a federally protected reserve the size of South Carolina, faith leaders hope to reframe the Arctic as an ecosystem essential to life.

In Kerala, Church of South India bishop cultivates climate justice

[World Council of Churches] In one of the largest dioceses of the Church of South India, climate justice begins in a vegetable garden. Across Kerala, many farmers have walked away...

Vatican body develops concept of 'ecological sin' in spiritual salvo on the environment

In a sprawling document published Sept. 2, the Vatican's International Theological Commission makes the case for developing an "ecological spirituality" in light of the Christian u...

A Home for Grandma: Caregiving and the Cross

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Where Creation Inspires

By Kathleen Butler Every summer, I take time to recharge my batteries, and this year, reading Joe Paprocki’s book, 8 Steps to Energize Your Faith, was exactly what I needed. Reflec...

Nature reveals God’s creative love

Ahead of the liturgical Season of Creation in September, Archbishop Shane Parker, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, reflects on God's work in the intricacies and interdepen...