Laudato Si

Pope Francis confirmed plans to publish a “second Laudato Si’,” which is expected to update and expand on his 2015 encyclical on the environment.

El cuidado por la creación resuena en muchos en nuestra diócesis — que Dios nos ayude a sentirnos íntimamente unidos con todo lo que existe como administradores de su creación.

Con un paisaje de pradera nativo, la parroquia cultiva un nuevo campus cuidando la creación y hermoso.

Developing their native prairie landscape, the Princeton/Zimmerman parish cultivates a mindful, yet beautiful new campus. 

Sharon Lavigne has been called a modern-day Moses. But the perhaps unlikely environmental prophet — a 71-year-old retired special education teacher — doesn’t want to lead her neighbors out of St. James Parish, Louisiana. She said she just wants area industries — which lie in the 85-mile corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans ruefully nicknamed “Cancer Alley” — to stop poisoning them. So in 2018, Lavigne — a lifelong resident of St. James Parish and a member of St. James Church, a predominantly Black Catholic parish in the Diocese of Baton Rouge with a 250-year history — founded a faith-based environmental advocacy group, Rise St. James.

The documentary, “The Letter: A Message For Our Earth,” is presented by YouTube Originals and was made in partnership with the Laudato Si’ Movement and the Vatican.

In 2015, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to welcome the season, the same year he wrote his encyclical on faith and the environment, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”

The Brad and Leanne Donnay family are supporters of “Upstream, Loving Where We Live,” an initiative that seeks to amplify Minnesotans’ shared connections to place with a spirit of optimism.