Catholic Social Teaching

Study Guide for Laudato Si’

Guide

Chapter by chapter guide from the Interfranciscan Commission for Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation. …

Laudato Si’ Curriculum for High School

A comprehensive curriculum on Laudato Si developed by the faculty of Salpointe Catholic High School, Tuscon, AZ, a Carmelite secondary school. …

Faith-Based Study Guide on Poverty and Hunger

Guide

A study guide of reflection on hunger and poverty, on how we relate the current world situation to the story and vision of our Catholic faith. …

Faith-Based Study Guide on Climate Change

Guide

A document that can walk you through Global Climate Change using a step by step reflective methodology called Shared Christian Praxis. From Catholic Rural Life …

Saint Kateri Conservation Center Ecology Library

Website

An extensive collection of statements on ecology and the environment from authentic Catholic sources …

Pope Francis’ guide to avoiding a ‘throwaway culture’

Article

Article from Our Sunday Visitor …

Laudato Si’ and Water

Article

Maryknoll Lay Missioner Flavio Rocha writes from Brazil, examining the lessons about water that Pope Francis offers in his encyclical Laudato Si'. …

Protecting the Ocean’s – The Pope Video #9

Video

(1 minute) Video on Pope Francis’s Prayer Intention for September 2019: “pray this month that politicians, scientists and economists work together to protect the world’s seas and oceans.” …

The Season of Creation is call to prayer and action

Prayer / Reflection

From Archbishop Charles C. Thompson's "Christ the Cornerstone" column in the Criterion. …

Take and Read: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor

Book

A reflections on the book Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor from Leonardo Boff published in 1997 which defined what are now primary pillars of Catholic ecotheology and environmental ethics -- justice for the poor and justice for the Earth. …

The Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor

Guide

A short guide from Progressio on Laudato Si', the Catholic Institute for International Relations in the UK. …

Abuse of environment threatens human life, dignity

Prayer / Reflection

Column by Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis on care for God's creation. …