“If we continue to do deforestation, it is like suicide," said Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo. "We need to act together to defend our common house."

This was the pope and chancellor's sixth meeting.

Rising seas due to global warming have rendered the coastal high-water marks more obsolete by the day. That is especially true in the Miami area, which every media report on sea-level rise seems to profile as ground zero for deluge doom.

Civic engagement is not limited to voting.

Activists see a moral imperative for protecting our water.

In parts of the U.S. church 'Laudato Si'' has sparked creativity and innovation with impacts not so easily set aside. One such experiment is the Diocese of Monterey’s advocacy of Community Choice Energy.

Vatican officials slammed it as “a disaster for the whole world because the United States has such importance today and is a country that many follow.”

Christians and Muslims, believers in one God, have an obligation to safeguard the world God created, said the Vatican's annual message to Muslims for the end of Ramadan.

It is clear that the president either has not yet read "Laudato Si'", or he simply disagrees with what the pontiff said.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops "is on record supporting prudent action to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change."