Brian Roewe

Photos of "a pope in muddy boots" began circulating on social media shortly after Cardinal Robert Prevost was introduced as Pope Leo XIV. The story behind the images tells of a pastor in close kinship with his community.

A federal judge paused a land transfer of 2,400 acres — including the centuries-old Western Apache sacred site, Oak Flat — to a mining company while the Supreme Court considers a separate appeal on religious protection grounds.

Augustinians around the world are remembering fellow Augustinian Fr. Robert Prevost, who was elected as pontiff on May 8 by 133 cardinals after four votes.

Will Pope Leo XIV continue Pope Francis' environmental legacy? Here's what we know about Leo's commitment to care for our common home.

Surprise, hope, excitement and pride were reflected in many of the initial reactions to Cardinal Robert Prevost on May 8 emerging on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica as Pope Leo XIV.

Since the birth of the modern environment movement in the 1970s, every pope has turned attention toward matters of ecology — whether pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation or climate change.

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of Cardinals, to provide an in-depth look into the views of the men who will select the new pope.

Apache Stronghold and its attorneys have argued the land transfer and subsequent destruction of Oak Flat would violate the Apache people's rights to worship under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Across nearly two hours April 25, Catholics at a digital wake expressed both sorrow and gratitude for Pope Francis and his leadership in protecting and preserving creation.

The pope made ecological concern a cornerstone of his 12-year papacy and positioned care of creation as both a nonnegotiable pillar of the Christian faith and "essential to a life of virtue."

Catholics around the world expressed their sadness and non-Catholics sent their condolences upon hearing the news of Pope Francis' death at age 88 on Easter Monday.

The death toll continues to rise above 3,000 from the March 28 quake in the Southeast Asian country. U.S. President Donald Trump has said the country will send aid.

The Trump administration's blueprints for remaking the EPA outline 31 regulations to eliminate or significantly scale back. Faith leaders say the rollbacks would harm human and environmental health.

A new architecture course at Catholic University of America combines energy ethics and technical skills for hands-on sustainability projects that can aid U.S. dioceses in improving energy use and reducing emissions.

The U.N. biodiversity summit, COP16, officially ended Feb. 28 in Rome, four months after the biannual talks began in Cali, Colombia. Nations reached deals on mobilizing funds and monitoring conservation commitments. 

A federal judge is weighing a U.S. bishops' lawsuit to halt cuts temporarily. The U.S. government has stiffed the bishops on $13 million owed for care for refugees before Jan. 24.

Vital humanitarian activities that Jesuit Refugee Service leads in nine countries remain in jeopardy, JRS says, even after a judge's order to temporarily lift the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid.

Days before an environmental justice conference at Loyola Marymount University, federal workers withdrew their participation, citing President Trump's orders against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

The international relief organization founded by U.S. bishops in 1943 is in crisis after sweeping foreign aid cuts by the Trump administration. The bishops' conference did not respond to a request to comment.

An internal email says CRS is likely to be cut in half this year from Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign assistance. Cuts will "cost people's lives and livelihoods," a former bishops' conference official says.