“I am writing a second part to Laudato Si’ to update it on current problems,” Pope Francis told the lawyers Aug. 21 during a meeting in the library of the Apostolic Palace.

The Holy Spirit’s work in the world is to orient and nurture creation continually toward the God of life and beauty.

It may appear strange that a Catholic moral theologian (me) would interact with an atheist philosopher who has consistently rejected the sanctity of human life while demanding we respect the lives of nonhuman animals.

The fate of Maria Lanakila Church was for several days the subject of rumor.

The mystics and the wilderness teach the same thing: forsake the illusion of control, pay attention to where you are, abandon yourself to the divine.

Canadians experience wildfires each year owing to lightning strikes and “careless people,” but no one can recall conditions like this.