Laudato Si’ Week 2021 is here! Here is everything you need to know about the crowning event of the Special Laudato Si’ Anniversary Year: how you can participate in the global events, and how you can create change on the local level and help bring Laudato Si’ to life.
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Pope Francis urges the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics and all people of good will to take urgent action against the injustice of climate change and the ecological crisis, to protect the poor and future generations. His encyclical letter Laudato Si’ is a compelling call to care for our common home, Earth, building on a long history of Catholic teaching. We are building a vibrant movement to respond to Pope Francis’ call.
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News and Updates
Laudato Si’ Week 2021: Everything you need to know
Season of Creation Celebration Guide now available as Christians prepare to unite around new theme
Christian communities around the world are invited to begin planning their Season of Creation celebrations with the new Season of Creation Celebration Guide, now available on the season’s website.
EcoGospel: VI Sunday of Easter. May 09, 2021
In this search for what is best for others, in today’s context, it is necessary to include love and care for our common home and all the creatures that inhabit it. The principle: “everything is connected” reveals to us that human life depends on the life of the planet and this makes us think that “to care for the world in which we live means to care for ourselves” (FT 17).
Laudato Si’, inspiration to create musical art
In Boston, USA, a composer and flutist has fallen in love with Laudato Si’ and made a place for it in her compositions: “It was a call to action through music,” says Linda Chase.
Brazil will hold its second National Meeting of Pastoral Ecology Ministries
With the purpose of sowing the seed of integral ecology in the environment, encouraged by Pope Francis in Laudato Si’, the Pastoral of Integral Ecology of Brazil will hold its second National Meeting of Pastoral of Ecology from June 13 to 26.
EcoGospel: V Sunday of Easter. May 2, 2021
We are a hyper-stimulated society, in a world of infinite supply and, without realizing it, we get involved in continuous shopping, in following the next fashion trend, in obtaining the next experience, etc. We suffer the consequences: stress, insecurity, economic problems, the feeling of not being in control of life, etc., and not infrequently we end up with an intimate dissatisfaction about everything. We look for something more.
Season of Creation leader: ‘God is the perfect scientist’
Decades ago, Dr. Louk Andrianos didn’t picture himself serving as a consultant on the Care for Creation, Sustainability and Climate Justice for the World Council of Churches, a key Season of Creation partner.
Laudato Si’ Ministries: How one U.S. diocese launched the ministry that’s transforming their community
Years ago, Kayla Jacobs didn’t expect to be fielding questions about her job from Catholics all across the U.S. She knew little about Catholic Social Teaching until she was a student at St. Xavier University on the southside of Chicago. “I was like, ‘Wow, people do this full time, you could really [do] Catholic Social Teaching forever?’” she said in a new episode of the Global Catholic Climate Movement podcast.
GCCM statement on President Biden’s climate commitments
GCCM celebrates U.S. President Joe Biden’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but recognizes that focused action is needed.
“Hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor”
– Pope Francis, Laudato Si’