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Your Digital Library: The Resources of the Platform

Explore the Laudato Si’ Action Platform´s Resources, where a library for environmental care offers digital tools and information ready to guide you. You can easily find what you’re looking for by choosing...

Christian Compassion for Animals: A Taizé Retreat Insight

Laura Morosini of the Laudato Si´Movement gathers workshop participants outside in shared reflection. In the heart of a retreat in Taizé, France Barbara Niedźwiedzka and Estela Torres led an unexpected workshop: “Enlarge...

Nigerian Dioceses Take Root: Trees by the Thousands

Caritas Nigeria directors planting tree with a Bishop. In the Nigerian landscape, where environmental challenges vary from desert encroachment to gully erosion and flooding, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN)...

Integral Ecology: A Holistic Approach to Global Challenges

Integral ecology, a key concept within Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, pushes against the conventional boundaries of environmental discourse. “Chapter Four: Integral Ecology” of Laudato Si’ unfolds as the encyclical’s core response...

About the Laudato Si’ Action Platform: A Blueprint for Global Sustainability

The Laudato Si’ Action Platform is a program of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Upon the foundational publication of Laudato Si’, both institutions and individuals sought tools to embark...

Partners Advocate for Climate Justice at COP28

At the recent COP28 climate conference, partners of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform supported Pope Francis by calling for a just end to the fossil fuel era and for climate justice. ...

Vatican Champions Just Fossil Fuel Transition at COP28

COP28, the annual conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, ended this week. The Vatican’s voice for creation and all who share it was heard throughout the...

Pope Francis’ Message to COP28

This year’s UN climate change summit, COP28, is not only a gathering of world leaders and environmental experts, but also a platform for a powerful moral message from Pope Francis. Although unable...

An Ethical Voice in Climate Negotiations

The 28th annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations’ framework on climate change, better known as COP28, begins this week. It is critical that the moral message of integral ecology...

Amplifying Integral Ecology: Highlights from the 2023 Celebration Webinar

The Laudato Si’ Action Platform’s 2023 Celebration Webinar marked a significant milestone in the journey toward integral ecology. The online event, streamed globally with live translations in multiple languages, united participants worldwide...

Catholic Bishops’ Moral Authority Key at COP28 in Dubai

In Pope Francis’s recent Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum, the Holy Father reiterates the paramount responsibility of the Catholic Church in addressing environmental challenges. From November 30 – December 12 in Dubai, the...

Crafting Your Laudato Si’ Plan & Reflection

The cry of the earth and the cry of the poor have never been louder. Throughout Laudate Deum, Pope Francis’s recent apostolic exhortation seen as an appendix to Laudato Si’, the pope...