Brian Roewe

The Vatican's long-awaited program for putting Pope Francis' ecological encyclical into action throughout the church debuted May 25, with the pope inviting all Catholics on a journey "to create the future we want."

A newly launched network hopes to channel prayer to heal the planet in the face of rising global temperatures and declining biodiversity, and inspire people of faith to work to reverse both problems.

An official in the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development urged Catholic institutions around the world to divest from fossil fuels, calling it a moral and theological imperative.

The U.S. bishops' conference is reviewing its socially responsible investment guidelines, a process that could result in the first update since 2003. The current document offers little direction on fossil fuels.

The Global Catholic Climate Movement champions fossil fuel divestment within the church, and its campaign has played a key role in making Catholic institutions among the most numerous in the divestment movement.

An online conference May 15 by the nonpartisan Citizens Climate Lobby, which has pushed for years for Congress to put a price on carbon, was aimed at Catholics, whose principles mesh with the lobby's values, organizers said.

The 2021 Laudato Si' Week events will celebrate the church's progress on the landmark 2015 encyclical and inspire deeper engagement around conservation, sustainability and changing the current trajectory of global warming.

Sen. Raphael Warnock believes that President Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan is just the project to both build a clean energy economy and also repair national rifts along the way.

Nearly 90% of students voting in a referendum at Marquette University want the Jesuit school to divest its $693 million endowment from stocks in the fossil fuel industry.

Georgetown's Berkley Center co-hosted a conversation on missionary dynamics in the Amazon — encounters that have 'great significance for the people involved at the front-line level, but also for the entire planet.'

In twin Earth Day messages, Pope Francis warned a gathering of world leaders and the global community at large that "we are at the edge" with climate change, and the time to take action is now.

A Vatican-sponsored webinar this week paired famed primatologist Jane Goodall with Cardinal Peter Turkson for a conversation about the importance of preserving biodiversity to preserve life on Earth.

Three bishops over four days spoke out on the need for more than technology and policy to stunt rising global temperatures and slow destruction of ecosystems and species, saying there must be changes in lifestyles and even how living a good life is defined.

As the Apache people have sought to protect the Oak Flat area in Arizona from a potential copper mine, their struggle has attracted the aid of Becket Law and other conservative religious liberty scholars.

Faith leaders have met with Texas state lawmakers and testified at hearings about the winter power outages, calling on them to mandate weatherization of the energy grid, end demand-based pricing structures, and help residents pay for repairs and recovery.

In 2011, "Journey of the Universe" portrayed the nearly 14-billion-year history of the universe, from the Big Bang to human life today. Ten years later, EarthBeat spoke with one of the producers about the film's impact.

President Joe Biden unveiled his $2 trillion American Jobs Plan on March 31, and environmental groups want to make sure he honors a campaign pledge to rebuild U.S. infrastructure post-COVID-19 in more just, equitable and sustainable ways.

Speaking at an online conference sponsored by St. John's University, Satya Tripathi, head of the U.N. Environment Program's New York office, said that "Mother Nature will go on," regardless of what happens to humans.

"The U.S. Catholic response has not been anywhere near what is commensurate with the science and the magnitude of what [Pope] Francis describes as the climate emergency," said Daniel DiLeo, assistant theology professor at Creighton University.

Ocean pollution "poses serious threats to human health and well-being," but it can still be halted, according to a report from 44 scientists in 20-plus countries. The Vatican's "Aqua fons vitae" talks about similar connections, which are planned for discussions this week to mark World Water Day.