Pope Francis returns with joy to Latin America this Sunday July 5 and is expected to be given a rapturous welcome by millions of people during his seven-day visit to Ecuador Bolivia and Paraguay On the eve of his departure he went to the Basilica of St Mary Major rsquo s in Rome to pray before t

Cardinal Peter Turkson President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace took ldquo Laudato Si rsquo rdquo on the road presenting the ldquo green encyclical rdquo from Pope Francis to a packed audience during a special conference at the United Nations on June 30 nbsp Turkson told hi

The path forward can happen only through love and openness to one another.

We called them ldquo Lightning Bugs rdquo though I think we might also have said ldquo Fireflies rdquo Hard to remember It rsquo s been half a century since I went hunting for them They rsquo d appear this time of the year flickering above the grass of the lawn as the last light of a long

Cape Cod MA Pope Francis rsquo magnificent encyclical quot Laudato Si 39 quot has already been widely commented on and receiving careful analysis from many angles It will of course be a topic of conversation material for study and implementation globally in dioceses and parishes as a

Francis is inviting more than half the human race to share in this prayer together.

It will take years to take the full measure of “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis’ new encyclical on the environment, and assess its impact. Pope Leo XIII wrote about the rights of workers in “Rerum Novarum” (1891) in response to the Industrial Revolution, but unions sti

Why didn’t “Laudato Si” include more good news about the environment?

Reading the encyclical we might ask ourselves, where did all that kid common sense go?

Pope Francis believes that we have made gods of progress and the market.