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Like his predecessor Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV has a vocal, defining focus on environmental stewardship — and he carried ...

A National Creation Care Framework has been launched to guide and equip churches to respond biblically and practically to ...

The Vatican has released a new liturgy for the Mass reflecting concern for the environment, offering prayers, readings and hymns that highlight the church's responsibility to protect the Earth.

The Mass was attended by the staff of the Borgo Laudato Si’ ecology project – a space for education and training in integral ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

I wonder whether the framing of the liturgy itself in instrumentalizing terms may unintentionally reinscribe problematic ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of ...

We should pray for the conversion of many people, in and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of ...

When my daughter told me recycling was a "white mom thing," I knew I was missing the mark on teaching her about why God calls ...

Devlyn Brooks is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and serves Faith Lutheran Church in ...