ecology

A senior U.N. official has urged faith-based groups to help reach a global agreement to curb plastic pollution, amid experts warning that single-use or disposable plastics were choking the planet.

The Season of Creation runs to Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology.

Here are seven ways to carry out what the encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” teaches.

Presidential executive orders related to environmental protection and climate change have gained the support of Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

Pope Francis pledged Vatican City State would achieve net-zero carbon emissions before the year 2050, and he urged everyone in the world to be part of a new culture of care for others and the planet.

Vatican task force focuses on human health, peace, security and progress would be better served with a complete end to the production of weapons worldwide.

Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley and other faith leaders joined scientists in issuing a call to action to address the “ecological and moral emergency” of climate change while there “is still time.”

The old farmers used to say you should leave a field better than you found it. Sometimes that called for heavy lifting. Other times it just meant picking up a rock as you crossed and placing it at the field’s edge.