Pope Francis has made climate change a key pillar of his papacy. His 2015 encyclical, the highest level teaching document a pope can issue, signalled a shift for the Catholic Church. Since then ...

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights ...

On June 18, Pope Francis issued a world-wide encyclical on ecology, environmental destruction, and climate change. The highly anticipated document, intended to spur reflection and action among the ...

Pope Francis' encyclical, published in 2015, is not a collection of recipes to be followed but a call to action to change the ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego is known for his progressive views on LGBTQ+ issues and social inequality.

He has frequently evoked the climate crisis in speeches, and in 2015 published an encyclical ... to get runaway climate change under control". Listen to Pope Francis's BBC message in full What ...

Pope Francis' encyclical, published in 2015, is not a collection of recipes to be followed but a call to action to change the world in response to the consequences of climate change, says an ...

When we are tempted to lose hope, we must remember that it is not a feeling or an emotion but a virtue, says the bishop of ...

“We for our part feel bound to cry out and denounce the many situations in which the earth is exploited and our neighbours oppressed,” Pope Francis writes ... United Nations Climate Change Conference, ...

Residents from Trento and surrounding villages say the felling of such an old tree runs counter to Pope Francis’ repeated ...