Brian Roewe

In a video message March 3, Pope Francis announced Laudato Si' Week, inviting the 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide to undertake ambitious actions to address mounting environmental perils.

The religious congregation is extending the Lenten observance to what they're calling Mercy Meatless Mondays, inviting Catholics to join them in addressing climate change with more plant-based diets.

After months of mounting student pressure, Creighton University announced it will partially divest its half-billion-dollar endowment from fossil fuel companies.

Seven Catholic schools are among 57 taking part in Fossil Fuel Divestment Day.

Pope Francis denounces in perhaps his strongest terms yet the unrestrained development in the Amazon that he says destroys one of the planet's critical ecosystems and disenfranchises its indigenous peoples.

The board of directors at the prestigious Jesuit university adopted a policy to cut investments in fossil fuels from its endowment while ramping up investments in renewable energy.

Burning Question: Poor air quality from an oil well. Contaminated drinking water from a chemical plant. Low-income housing located in a floodplain. These are all examples of environmental injustice.

Twenty-something Catholics shared their perspectives on abortion with NCR. For many of them, the ongoing national debate and its binary sides fall short of the issue's complexities.

The question of whether there is a "Catholic vote" in Iowa most often leads political watchers to Dubuque County, where over half the 96,000 residents identify as Catholic.

A federal appeals court on Friday directed the dismissal of a high-profile lawsuit brought by 21 youth plaintiffs who had sued the U.S. federal government for violating their constitutional rights through its inaction on climate change.

Burning Questions: Real trees are greener, so if you skip the artificial and now pine over how best to recycle this year's spruce, this question is fir you.

Catholic organizations at the U.N. climate change conference were disappointed by lackluster outcomes and the disconnect between the urgency shown by science and called for by millions, and the talk among governments.

In a busy week for the Swedish teen climate activist, what she likely hoped people paid the most attention was her COP 25 speech. And not just the buzzy parts.

The gap between words and actions on climate change is a sign of "weak" awareness of the urgent steps needed in the next decade to avert a climate disaster, Pope Francis said in his message to participants at the United Nations climate summit in Madrid.

The petition, signed by Catholics in every state, urged the U.S. Senate to pass a bill requiring the president to create a plan to meet the U.S. commitments under the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Burning Questions: Our reader asked what exactly the Paris Agreement requires of individual countries, and is anyone keeping track?

Jesuit Fr. Daniel Hendrickson released a statement Nov. 13 declining to act on a non-binding referendum supported by 86% of the voting student body to divest the school's endowment from fossil fuels.

Students at Creighton University are awaiting a decision from the school's president after the campus last week voted overwhelmingly to recommend it divest its endowment from fossil fuels.

The challenges of expanding how many parishes and dioceses embrace the messages in Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," are complex. NCR takes a closer look at how four dioceses — Atlanta, New York City, Indianapolis and San Bernardino — are doing it.