Promoting religious freedom, providing humanitarian assistance and fighting human trafficking are three major issues the Vatican and the U.S. administration agree on and on which they will continue to coordinate efforts, panelists said at a joint symposium.

“Our vocation is to help men and women to live their human lives and to live them to the full,” said Father Czerny. “This is the big mission. This is what it means to preach the Gospel and to bring the Good News to the ends of the earth.”

But the Pan-Amazon Synod’s organizers say much of the unhappiness with the its working document simply reflects Eurocentricism. Many critics “have little knowledge of the Amazon and in some cases have no commitment to its people.”

Climate strikes led primarily by young people are happening around the world. How are Jesuit schools engaging with this issue?

Integral ecology requires a cultural and spiritual conversion built on a "culture of encounter."

Four Massachusetts Catholic bishops warned of environmental red flags documented by scientists and urged a change in behaviors in a Sept. 16 statement calling for substantial changes to safeguard creation.

by making these men cardinals, the pope is handing them megaphones.

The Vatican announced that Pope Francis personally would ordain the cardinal-designate a bishop Oct. 4, the day before the consistory.

Published in 1953, the children’s book can act a parable for coming to grips with climate change.

Pope Francis believes that Christianity and the Catholic Church can have a great future in this continent where two-thirds of humanity live.