Following the invitation by the Pope the Pontifical Coucil for Justice and Peace prepared a proposal for a One-Hour-Eucharistic Adoration.
An interview with Sister Simone Campbell, lawyer, poet, author and executive director of the Network social justice group, in America (6/11/2015)
Michael Czerny, jesuit, serves in the office of the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Rome. Published in Jesuits Canada blog (26/8/2015)
A personal response, an ecumenical reflection. By John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon and theological advisor to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. in First Things (6/7/2015).
By Fr. Frederick D’Souza, Executive Director Caritas India.
By Tomás Insua, Founding Coordinator of Global Catholic Climate Movement & Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School - The Huffington Post (17/6/2016).
Laudato Si & the limits of the scientific spirit. By Mark Shiffman, in Commonweal (8/3/2016)
The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, on Tuesday opened a two-day conference at Santa Clara University in California which centered on Silicon Valley’s response to Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato si’.
Welcome of card. Turkson to the participants to the Second Meeting of Directors of Pharmaceutical and Diagnostic Industries for children living with HIV: Consultation on “Fast-Tracking Paediatric HIV Diagnosis and Treatment”
Public lecture of Cardinal Turkson, Villanova University, Philadelphia (25/2/2016).
The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, addressed a conference on “Care for our Common Home in the context of Large Scale Investments in Mining and Agriculture” in Lusaka, Zambia.
His speech was entitled “An Overview of Laudato si’ – What are the main issues and key concerns?”
Four Australian Catholic orders are jointly and publicly divesting from coal, oil and gas: ‘We believe the Gospel asks no less of us’. In The Guardian (16/6/2016).
Pope Francis, who has made the environment a clear focus of his papacy over the past three years, deepened his vision of a green church in which caring for the planet is as important a Catholic commitment as caring for the sick and the hungry.
The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, delivered an address to the Global Responsibility 2030 conference meeting in Bad Honnef, Germany.
Cardinal Turkson addressed UNICEF House at the United Nations in New York. He spoke about the Encyclical of Pope Francis, Laudato si’, and how it relates to children and to their future (30/6/2015).
September 1 was proclaimed as the World Day of Prayer for Creation by the Orthodox Church in 1989, and many other Christian churches have joined since then, with Pope Francis most recently in 2015. It was then extended to be a month-long Season of Creation, ending on October 4 (Feast of St. Francis)
Scientists have spoken on climate change. But will it take a leap of faith for people to change?
By Laura Paskus, in Santa Fe Reporter (16/12/2015).
Michael Czerny, jesuit, serves in the office of the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Rome. Published in Jesuits Canada blog (30/8/2015)
By Donal Dorr, in Thinking Faith (20/7/2015)
This free guide is a resource for parishes to take a first step during Laudato Si’ Week, to celebrate the encyclical’s anniversary with concrete action.
The World Food Programme’s leadership and executive board took June 12-13 2016 to reflect on the organization's past, present, and hoped-for partnerships on hunger with religious and spiritual leaders and communities of different traditions from all around the world. Among the leaders asked to contribute was the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson.
Fr. Martin Harun, of Dutch origin, wanted to translate the document "to express gratitude to God" and "respect" for the Pope. The text, welcomed "with enthusiasm" by the faithful, is available on the Indonesian Bishops' Conference website.
The Green Churches Network aims to empower faith communities in adopting environmentally aware practices through action and awareness, as well as rediscovering an eco-spirituality from the Christian tradition.
Produce grown in the community garden at St. Pius X Church in Conyers (Georgia, Usa). goes to families in need. The garden is an example of ways the Atlanta Archdiocese hopes Catholics and parishes can implement Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment (4/12/2015).
The diocese of Miao, India sits in rich, mountainous forest terrain on the edge of the Himalayas. Most of its residents are tribal artisans whose livelihood is solely dependent on the local natural resources and the forest’s produce. In Catholic News Agency (25/7/2015)
by Thomas Reese, in National Catholic Reporter (27/8/2015)
Various resources, also for students, by British Jesuits
His Eminence Cardinal Peter Turkson hosted and opened a high-level meeting with representatives of the private sector, including pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies, faith-based organizations responding to HIV, people living with HIV, national governments, the United Nations and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Cardinal Turkson at the Conference “Integral Ecology, Agriculture and Food”, promoted by FAO (26/10/2015)
By Roberto Chiotti, in Faith and Form, The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture
By Christina Gray, in Catholic News Service (17/3/2016)
A Lecture given by Card. Peter K. A. Turkson at the 2016 John M. Kelly Lecture, University of St Michael’s College, Toronto (21 March 2016).
Environmental degradation is a social justice issue that cannot be ignored. Too many Americans are robbed of life’s most basic necessities: clean air and clean water, because they stand on the lowest rungs of our nation’s economic ladder.
A group resource to bring the encyclical to life
The change in American Church with the encyclical of Pope Francis. By Brian Roewe, in National Catholic Reporter (18/6/2015)
Ways to adapt Pope Francis’ encyclical on creation to everyday life. By Barry Hudock, in Osv Newsweekly (23/8/2015)
Remarks of Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson, President, Pontifical Council for Social Faith and Justice, to the International Shalom Seminar. First Congregation-wide Gathering of Shalom Contacts and Provincial Councilors. School Sisters of Notre Dame Generalate, Rome, Italy (July 11, 2015).
Years before Pope Francis’ recent ecology encyclical was published, a Trappist monastery in Virginia went back to its spiritual roots by embracing environmental stewardship. In Catholic News Agency (2/9/2015)
The St. Peter’s Church in Bandra, Mumbai, is one of the model parishes featured in anew ecology guide that inspires and give spractical ideas to Catholics across the world to combat climate change.
A Report on Environmental teaching for Future Priests, in Vatican Insider (30/5/2016)
Climate change is the most important and neglected moral crisis of the twenty-first century. It might be a leading priority for Pope Francis, but it barely registers on the U.S. political radar, especially in this heated campaign season.
by Bernd Nilles, Secretary General of CIDSE, international alliance of Catholic development agencies; in Christian Today (17/6/2016)
Ways to adapt Pope Francis’ encyclical on creation to everyday life. By Barry Hudock, in Osv Newsweekly (23/8/2015)
Msgr. Joseph Arshad, Bishop of Faisalabad and President of the National Commission "Justice and Peace" (NCJP) of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Pakistan says in a note sent Agenzia Fides.
CIDSE conference called for urgent climate action and greater transformation in economies and lifestyles, with Ottmar Edehofer, Naomi Klein, Flaminia Giovanelli, Bernd Nilles (1/7/2015)
Pope Francis proposed that caring for the environment be added to the traditional seven works of mercy that Christians are called to perform, taking his green agenda to a new level.
In a first-ever papal message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Francis has called on believers everywhere to recognize and repent of “our sins against creation, the poor and future generations”.
The Holy Father's message marking the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation is not the kind of document you expect to be exciting. But, then, along comes Pope Francis, expectations must be recalibrated.
Pontiff says humans are turning planet into ‘wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth’ in call for urgent action on climate change
Pope Francis proposed that caring for the environment be added to the traditional seven works of mercy that Christians are called to perform.
Press conference with Card. Turkson, Naomi Klein, Ottmar Edenhofer, Bernd Nilles before the meeting Change for the Planet - Care for the People, promoted by Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and CIDSE, an international alliance of Catholic development agencies working together for global justice.
Pune’s Bishop Thomas Dabre, while promoting Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, added that his diocese would promote greater austerity and sustainability measures across Pune. Published in Matters India (20 June 2015).
The Encyclical Letter ‘Laudato sì’ had a huge impact and sparked a lively debate around its contents. Indeed, the document focuses on the crisis of the ‘common home’ of humanity, identifying the problems and indicating the path. By CIDSE
By Sr. Rose Pacatte, member of the Daughters of St. Paul, director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles. In National Catholic Reporter (29/12/2015)
Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace, addressed the University community.
Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (20/7/2015).
The President of the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, opened an international seminar entitled “Sustainable development and the future of work in the context of the Jubilee of Mercy” taking place in May 2016 in Rome.
Transformative cooperation between value-based investors, promoted by the European Movement in Italy (CIME), the European Partners for Environment (EPE), the Centre for Studies on Federalism (CSF). Centre Saint Louis in Rome (15/4/2016)
Catholics, Capitalism and Climate. By Cardinal Peter Turkson, in America (17/2/2016).
How Laudato Si’ Extends Catholic Social Teaching. By Anthony Annett, in Commonweal (7/7/2015)
Pope Francis and our faith-driven responsibility for the common good by Richard E. Pates, bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines (Iowa), in America (23/5/2016)
By Alex Muyebe S.J. and Peter Henriot SJ (29/6/2015).
By Roza Pati, law professor and executive director of the graduate program in Intercultural Human Rights at St. Thomas University School of Law. She is a member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and is the Council's U.S. representative. In Daily Business Review (2/7/2015)
Videos, analysis and graphics by Fr. Robert Barron
Global Climate Catholic Movement is excited to be hosting the Laudato Si’ Eco-Village during World Youth Day Youth Festival in Krakow, Poland, July 26-29. The festival will be characterized by workshops, exhibitions, and artistic and cultural performances under the theme “Merciful to God’s creation!”.
Pope Francis one year ago called for dialogue about the state of "our common home." What's been the impact?