Pope Leo XIV celebrated on Wednesday what has been dubbed the first “green” papal Mass, using a new set of prayers imploring ...

Pope Leo XIV is also enacting a plan to build a solar farm that would make Vatican City the world’s first carbon-neutral ...

The Mass indicated a strong line of ecological continuity with Pope Francis, who made environmental protection a hallmark of ...

Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of the poor,” as he celebrated the first ...

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated what has been dubbed as the first “green” papal Mass. He used a new set of prayers imploring care ...

Pope Leo XIV began his summer break July 6 at Castel Gandolfo, where he’ll stay through July 20. But don’t expect the Holy ...

Pope Leo XIV began his summer break July 6 at Castel Gandolfo, where he’ll stay through July 20. But don’t expect the Holy Father to simply relax.

The green legacy of Pope Francis is encapsulated in his encyclical Laudato Si’. It is a beacon that upended centuries of Catholic church teaching by framing a dialogue for all of humanity. It ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday. He was 88, and had suffered a serious bout of double pneumonia.

In 2015 Pope Francis issued a papal letter—or encyclical —titled Laudato Si'. It recognized climate change as a global problem with significant consequences, especially for the poor.

Pope Francis died on April 21, Easter Monday, after leading a global church of nearly 1.3 billion Catholics for more than a decade. The Argentine-born Francis had served as pope since 2013, when ...