Stories
General
Season of Creation 2026: Living Water Theme, Dates, and How to Participate
Global communities unite through the Season of Creation to pray, learn, and take action for environmental sustainability and care for our common home.
Palm Sunday. Passion, death, and resurrection: opening the heart
Reflect on Palm Sunday through Christ’s Passion, exploring love, ecological justice, and hope in a divided world inspired by Laudato Si’.
Action and Ecological Conversion in Europe: ELSiA’s Retreat at Taizé
From March 5 to 8, a three-day retreat unfolded in deep connection — with one another, with God, and with nature. Representatives from around 30 organisations across various European countries gathered to make hope visible through concrete initiatives of integral...
Laudato Si’ Movement Opens Registration for the 2026 Laudato Si’ Animators Training
Global online program equips Catholics and people of goodwill to lead local climate and ecological action inspired by faith The program responds to the urgent call of Pope Leo XIV to deepen ecological education and inspire new paths to safeguard creation. In a recent...
Catholic leaders from the Global South and Europe call for a just transition beyond fossil fuels
Rome / Bogotá / Belém — March 16, 2026 Catholic leaders from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Oceania, and Europe gathered today for a global webinar to present the “Manifesto of the Churches of the Global South for Our Common Home: Towards Peace with...
Catholic Leaders Call for a Just Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels to Protect Our Common Home
Catholic leaders from the Global South and Europe launch a manifesto calling for a just transition beyond fossil fuels. The Laudato Si’ Movement highlights the moral and theological case for climate action and protecting vulnerable communities.
Eco-Conversion
Season of Creation 2026: Living Water Theme, Dates, and How to Participate
Global communities unite through the Season of Creation to pray, learn, and take action for environmental sustainability and care for our common home.
Palm Sunday. Passion, death, and resurrection: opening the heart
Reflect on Palm Sunday through Christ’s Passion, exploring love, ecological justice, and hope in a divided world inspired by Laudato Si’.
Catholic Leaders Call for a Just Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels to Protect Our Common Home
Catholic leaders from the Global South and Europe launch a manifesto calling for a just transition beyond fossil fuels. The Laudato Si’ Movement highlights the moral and theological case for climate action and protecting vulnerable communities.
A Global Return to the Heart: 300 Voices United for Creation During Lent
Over 300 people from around the world joined the Laudato Si’ Movement’s global Lenten Prayer Service, uniting in prayer for ecological conversion and care for our common home.
Fifth Sunday of Lent: The Resurrection of Lazarus and a Call to Care for Life
Lazarus, Come Out”: Fifth Sunday of Lent Reflection on Compassion and Care for Creation
Catholic Leaders Call for a Just Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels to Protect Our Common Home
Catholic leaders from the Global South and Europe launch a manifesto calling for a just transition beyond fossil fuels. The Laudato Si’ Movement highlights the moral and theological case for climate action and protecting vulnerable communities.
Prophetic Advocacy
Why Ending Fossil Fuels Matters for the Laudato Si’ Movement
The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty addresses the climate crisis by ending fossil fuel expansion and promoting a just transition rooted in care for creation and climate justice.
Dilexi Te: Tolerated Evils and How to Be the Church of the Poor
Dilexi Te invites the Church to walk with the poor, confront structural injustice, and build collective, faith-driven solutions for social, economic, and ecological justice in the Philippines and beyond by Bishop Gerardo A. Alminaza
“Peace Be With You All”: Walking Toward an Unarmed and Disarming Peace
World Day of Peace 2026, unarmed and disarming peace, Pope Leo XIV peace message, Laudato Si’ peace and ecology, integral ecology and peace, Catholic peace teaching, care for creation peace
Laudato Si’ Movement – 11th Anniversary Online Celebration : A Global Celebration of Gratitude, Passion, and Hope
Join us on January 17th, 2026 for LSM’s 11th Anniversary
Reflections on COP30 in Belém: A River of Hope for Our Common Home
At COP30 in Belém, the Laudato Si’ Movement highlighted Catholic climate leadership, Indigenous wisdom, and actionable pathways for global climate justice and care for our common home.
Faith in Action: 62 Institutions Choose the Planet Over Profit
62 faith institutions announced their divestment from fossil fuels, showing global faith leadership for climate justice and a fossil-free future rooted in the spirit of Laudato Si’.
Lifestyles
Season of Creation 2026: Living Water Theme, Dates, and How to Participate
Global communities unite through the Season of Creation to pray, learn, and take action for environmental sustainability and care for our common home.
Palm Sunday. Passion, death, and resurrection: opening the heart
Reflect on Palm Sunday through Christ’s Passion, exploring love, ecological justice, and hope in a divided world inspired by Laudato Si’.
Catholic Leaders Call for a Just Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels to Protect Our Common Home
Catholic leaders from the Global South and Europe launch a manifesto calling for a just transition beyond fossil fuels. The Laudato Si’ Movement highlights the moral and theological case for climate action and protecting vulnerable communities.
A Global Return to the Heart: 300 Voices United for Creation During Lent
Over 300 people from around the world joined the Laudato Si’ Movement’s global Lenten Prayer Service, uniting in prayer for ecological conversion and care for our common home.
Fifth Sunday of Lent: The Resurrection of Lazarus and a Call to Care for Life
Lazarus, Come Out”: Fifth Sunday of Lent Reflection on Compassion and Care for Creation
Catholic Leaders Call for a Just Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels to Protect Our Common Home
Catholic leaders from the Global South and Europe launch a manifesto calling for a just transition beyond fossil fuels. The Laudato Si’ Movement highlights the moral and theological case for climate action and protecting vulnerable communities.
Africa
National Meeting of the Laudato Si’ Movement – Cameroon Chapter
By: Henry Alix Effa Chargé de la communication du Chapitre LSM Cameroun. Report on Saturday, 29 November 2025 The second national meeting of the Cameroon Chapter of the Laudato Si’ Movement was held on Saturday, 29 November 2025, in Yaoundé. It brought together eight...
Young Voices, Shared Vision: SECAM Youth Leaders Seminar on the Future of the Church in Africa
By: Gloria Munyiva Wambua This was a meaningful gathering that highlighted care for our common home as an essential part of the Church’s mission in Africa today. From the outset, the seminar affirmed that ecological responsibility is not a separate concern, but a...
Celebrating the Season of Creation 2025
By: Sister Albertina Nts’ebo Nkunyane (LSA Lesotho Chapter) The Season of Creation is celebrated yearly starting from 1st September to 4th October, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology. The theme for 2025 is “Peace with Creation,” reminding...
Bridging Continents: Africa and Europe Unite for Ecological Justice
A reflection on our recent Africa-Europe Advocacy Gathering, November 25, 2025 As the African Union–European Union Summit convened in Angola this 24-25 November, Laudato Si' Movement’s advocacy groups and partners from across two continents gathered online to weave...
Raising Hope Conference: Bernadette Crewe-Brown Reflects on Hope, the Future, and Caring for Our Common Home
By: Mwenya Chitambala Italy's Castel Gandolfo At the International Centre for the Focolare Movement's peaceful Mariapoli Centre, more than 400 representatives from the Global Laudato Si' Community came together in a potent fusion of faith and action to commemorate a...
“Show, don’t tell.” That’s what I picked from Laudato Si Africa Conference, in Uganda.
By Gabriel Dinda When I received the call for abstracts to participate in the upcoming Laudato Si' Africa Conference, I didn’t hesitate to express my interest. After ten years, since Pope Francis launched the encyclical, this conference will prove crucial in taking...
Chapters
- Christians and Climate Change Podcast Featuring Lorna Gold
on April 9, 2026What does it mean to care for creation as an expression of our faith? Dr. Samuel Shephard speaks with Lorna Gold, of the Laudato Si’ Movement, about Pope […]
- A Tree Grows at St. Bernard de Clairvaux
on April 2, 2026A few weeks ago we shared the picture of a bare tree at St. Bernard de Clairvaux in Bridgewater. When parishioners perform acts that care for creation by […]
- Laudato Si’ Movement Opens Registration for the 2026 Laudato Si’ Animators Training
on March 30, 2026Global online program equips Catholics and people of goodwill to lead local climate and ecological action inspired by faith The program responds to the urgent […]
- A Simple Life in Harmony with Creation
on March 13, 2026We warmly invite you to attend this retreat on May 16 sponsored by the Laudato Si’ Movement New Jersey Chapter. Please click on the title above to get all […]
- Manifesto of the Churches of the Global South for Our Common Home
on March 13, 2026🌿Churches from the Global South and Europe raise a clear voice for our common home. Catholic leaders from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe […]
- Manifesto of the Churches of the Global South for our Common Home
on March 12, 2026🌿Churches from the Global South and Europe raise a clear voice for our common home. Catholic leaders from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe […]