In an unprecedented response to the “grave threat” facing all peoples worldwide from climate change, Pope Francis and some 40 faith leaders have joined in an appeal for urgent action.

But the pope also encouraged activists to help rebuild society’s “fabric of relationships” by working towards unity rather than division.

Maybe in this time of uncertainty, fear and doubt, it would be worth recruiting some young people like BTS, Greta Thunberg or Malala Yousafzai to officially join the pope in his fight for the future of our planet.

Olga Segura’s book charts her personal journey of resisting systemic racism and her pain at finding herself unaccompanied on that path by many Catholics or by the institutional church.

Many Catholics are now devastated to lose access to a treasured rite that has nourished their spiritual lives for decades.

‘The Ministry for the Future’ offers a vision honest to the scale of the crisis that offers a plausible path to addressing it.

Even though Pope Francis remains hospitalized while he recovers from intestinal surgery Sunday at a Rome hospital, he is still pope and very much in charge.

For many women religious, the Laudato Si’ Action Platform is an opportunity to be creative, writes Kathleen Bonnette, as well as a way to disprove the alarmist idea that their communities are fading into obscurity.

It is important to engage in conversations about complex and even controversial subjects using our faith and intellect.

“My hope is that the church can use the immense power of its storytelling to move toward more compassion, more kindness.”