By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome “I like punctuality, it’s a virtue I have learned to appreciate,” Pope Francis writes ... views from his various encyclicals, his weekly addresses ...

Explore religious figures shaping global events in 2025. From influential leaders to rising voices, this four-part series ...

People who watch Pope Francis closely will recognise in the autobiography many of his views from his various encyclicals ... the New York Times bestseller list. In 2024, Life, an anecdote-rich ...

Pope Francis’s autobiographical meditations open with ... as we enter an era of even more large-scale human displacement caused by ecological devastation. Francis’s encyclical of 2015, Laudato si’, ...

As this modern “rooster,” Pope Francis continues to echo his message in his 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti: “Every war leaves our world worse than it was before. War is a failure of politics ...

The long-term well-being of humanity and the planet has been one of the major themes repeated by Pope Francis throughout his papacy. The encyclicals Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti have ...

His remarks align with Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si', which frames environmental stewardship as a moral obligation. Then-Bishop of San Diego Robert Walter McElroy poses during a meeting at ...

The Catholic Church has its own history of prophetic voices using the moral authority of the priesthood to remind political ...

It also marks the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi's "Canticle of the Creatures," from which the pope's encyclical draws its name. Speaking to EarthBeat Jan. 30 by phone from Rome ...

ROME – Pope Francis this week made ... Brambilla joins a growing list of women who have been appointed to decision-making roles in Francis’s Vatican, following the appointment in 2021 of ...

A new tour of the Vatican Gardens at the pope ... encyclical Laudato Si’ into practice. The Vatican Gardens at Castel Gandolfo. Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA “Pope Francis believes that he ...

The petition references several of Pope Francis' encyclicals which emphasize the importance of protecting the environment and respecting nature. In these encyclicals, the Pope has consistently ...