“Laudato Si’: On the Care of Our Common Home”

Biennial gatherings on Laudato Si’ and new educational resources assist parishes in becoming better stewards of the planet.

The movie’s focus is on organic farming — specifically, biodynamic farming, in which the soil is continually replenished without the use of chemical fertilizers and crops are grown without artificial pesticides.

A keen observer of the natural world, poet Mary Oliver was a herald for our time, combining a love for nature with a quest for transcendence.

The document aims to help Minnesotans understand Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’: on Care for Our Common Home” on a more local level.

Caritas representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean met in Honduras in early February and discussed how the church can recover and transfer the wisdom of indigenous peoples to other societies.

From Pope Gregory XIII’s observational tower built in the Vatican Gardens in the 16th century to Pope Leo XIII, who officially re-founded the Vatican Observatory in the late 19th century, popes have kept their eyes fixed on the heavens.

For Molly Burhans, 28, a map represents more than a way to identify a geographic locale; each location on a map represents complex layers of data that can be used to respond to human needs and protect fragile ecosystems and studying the challenges facing the church.

Less than two months after Pope Francis spoke out about environmental destruction in the Amazon basin during a visit to Peru, bishops from Latin America and the Caribbean have issued a pastoral letter calling the region’s Catholics to an “integral ecological conversion.”