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Just a few days after beginning his summer holidays in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Mass for the Care ...

ROME -- "We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home," Pope Leo XIV said while celebrating a ...

When Pope Francis’s first encyclical on the environment was released ten years ago this summer, it made headlines beyond ...

"Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue." Pope Leo XIV holds first 'green ...

In addition to his pastoral duties, Bishop Conley is the caretaker of more than 10,000 bees in two hives — a pastime that he ...

You know the feeling of being right. You’re in the heat of an argument, or what really wouldn’t be an argument if the other ...

By Sebastián Sansón Ferrari The Laudato Si’ Village is a 55-hectare ecological haven nestled within the Pontifical Villas of ...

A leading Cameroonian priest says the Church’s idea of Synodality as a vital alternative for politics in 2025 and beyond.

Pope Francis wrote the first environmental encyclical letter in the history of the Catholic Church. As he was writing it, so many of us who were, and still are, concerned about the sickening state of ...

The vestments, created by the House of Hansen in former Cardinal Robert Prevost's hometown, were made of an ecclesiastical ...

Where does Pope Leo stand on climate change and other environmental issues? And what kind of legacy did Pope Francis leave on ...