Pray with the Pope: September 2019
Laudato Sea: Why we must save oceans –Â In September Pope Francis is calling us to pray for united actions to...
Laudato Si
Mass to Honour Care of Creation
Staff at Khanya House in Pretoria, headquarters of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, celebrated World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation with a Mass.
Climate Change and the Catholic: The Simple Version
Catholic social teaching has developed over the past century as new problems – human, social, economic and environmental – come clearer into focus and call out for a faith-based response.
Plea to World Leaders – Hear the Cry of the Earth
Environmental destruction is a sign of a “morally decaying scenario” in which too many people ignore or deny that, from the beginning, “God intended humanity to cooperate in the preservation and protection of the earth
Pope: Protecting the Planet is an Ethical and Moral Obligation
The vulnerability of the poor and of future generations to the impact of climate change creates a “serious ethical and...
The Case for Small Towns
As urbanisation steadily increases, so too does man’s dislocation from an important source of life’s meaning In the Hunger Games...
Caring for creation – Central to Pope Francis’ Papacy
As the first pope in history to write an encyclical letter on the environment, Pope Francis demonstrated to the...
I Found the Benefits of the Pope’s Advice in My Garden
Some of us will occasionally feel the guilt carefully planted in childhood when our mothers, fathers or caretakers told us...
Recycling puts Encyclical to Work
Mitchell M Cloete, St Francis Xavier Seminary, Cape Town – Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato Si (“On care for our...
