EarthBeat

13/08/2025

Elected officials who deny climate change must be called out by the church, and political candidates who support climate action should be endorsed in line with Catholic teaching.

01/08/2025

Italy agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare field north of Rome into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs and turn Vatican City into the world's first carbon-neutral state.

Italy agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs and turn Vatican City into the world's first carbon-neutral state.

29/07/2025

Catholics wondering what they personally can do to respond to climate change and heed Pope Francis' call in Laudato Si' to protect the earth can now look to Catholic Climate Action Projects.

The platform allows both individuals and groups to offset some of their carbon footprint, encouraging lifestyle changes among members.

29/07/2025

Native American groups were aware of the region’s dramatic features. Since the national park’s creation, other faiths have also been inspired by its beauty, from Christians to New Age groups.

28/07/2025

Participants from the US and Africa urged scientific and economic thinkers on climate to consider spiritual concepts raised in Laudato Si'.

24/07/2025

The ecological agenda of the Trump administration isn't just immoral, argues Dan Horan — it's sinful.

18/07/2025

From Boston to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, faithful across the nation are reaching out to bring material and spiritual aid to those impacted by the devastating July 4 flash floods in the Texas Hill Country.

14/07/2025

Delia Barajas and Carmen Jimenez cite Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si' as inspiration to take action and start Voces Fieles Comunitarias Contra la Opresión (Faithful Community Voices Against Oppression).

10/07/2025

I wonder whether the framing of the liturgy itself in instrumentalizing terms may unintentionally reinscribe problematic views of the relationship between the human and more-than-human world.

09/07/2025

"We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home," Pope Leo XIV said while celebrating a new formulary of the Mass "for the care of creation."

08/07/2025

Catholic parishes, schools and houses of worship across the country pursuing wind and solar projects were dealt a major financial blow in President Donald Trump's domestic-policy and tax-cut bill signed into law on July 4.

For religious organizations, loss of the rebates jeopardizes financing options for clean energy projects and is expected to result in millions of dollars less in energy cost savings that could otherwise be reinvested in other church ministries and programs.

07/07/2025

Water rose fast along the Guadalupe River, causing 68 deaths as of Sunday afternoon. Local officials said they couldn’t have seen it coming.