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Around world, men, women, children ‘bear burden’ of climate change, says nuncio
- Oct 15, 2020
Protecting “our common home for present and future generations is one of the most urgent demands of our time,” Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations, said Oct. 13.

By Catholic News Service
Pope vents frustration over lack of political will to implement ‘Laudato Si’
- Dec 6, 2019
Four years after publishing his provocative encyclical ‘Laudato Si’, Pope Francis has criticized its implementation, saying in two separate messages published this week that the global resolutions the document hoped to influence are failing, largely due a lack of commitment from the parties involved.

By Elise Harris
At Madrid climate talks, Catholics work to provide ‘moral perspective’
- Dec 5, 2019
Catholic campaigners at U.N. climate talks welcomed support from Pope Francis and vowed to bring a “firm moral perspective” to intergovernmental negotiations.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Pope demands action for failing fight against climate change
- Dec 4, 2019
Despite growing recognition of climate change as a legitimate and looming threat, current commitments to mitigate its effects and alter human behavior fall short of those needed to resolve the crisis in time, Pope Francis said.

By Paige Hanley
African youth challenged to do more to fight climate change
- Jul 20, 2019
An international conference in Nairobi on Laudato Si’ – the 2015 environmental encyclical by Pope Francis — ended on Wednesday with young people of different faiths being challenged to take concrete action against the degradation of humanity’s “common home.”

By Crux Staff
Pope to oil execs: We don’t ‘have the luxury’ to wait to fight climate change
- Jun 14, 2019
Speaking to oil company executives, Pope Francis on Friday said that climate change “threatens the very future” of humanity, adding that the “doomsday predictions” can no longer be met with disdain.

By Inés San Martín