‘Laudate Deum’: Pope Francis’ ‘Laudato Si’ Companion Piece on the Environment
COMMENTARY: It is essential that this exhortation, which is a different kind of papal document, be read together with the Holy Father’s 2015 encyclical.
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Pope Francis Issues New Call for Dramatic Climate-Change Measures
On the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis releases a new document on the environment.
Pope Francis’ Advancement of the Catholic Climate Agenda
COMMENTARY: Both Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict contended that life ethics and social ethics should go together in theory. Pope Francis argues that they really do go together in practice.
Ecological Turn at the Vatican
COMMENTARY: The working document for the Pan-Amazonian synod, and two other recently released documents, suggest that environmental policies will be treated as magisterial matters.
