The choice by Pope Francis to release “Laudate Deum” eight years after the publication of “Laudato Si’” is an unusual one, signaling an imminent climate crisis.

With COP28 in the United Arab Emirates imminent, opinion in the developed world on climate change has become deeply polarized. Perhaps exhausted by the digital news cycle, many people have developed compassion fatigue.

The C.E.C. demonstrates a profound, organic Catholicism that places people within "the wholeness of creation" and asks them "to look and feel and touch and know it."

In his new document, 'Laudate Deum,' Pope Francis gives us more hope about humanity’s right relationship with other animals, even if it lacks specifics.

Pope Francis draws inspiration, especially from psalms and legal texts, to remind humans of our shared status with creation.

In 'Laudate Deum,' Pope Francis takes direct aim at the failure of human action on climate change on the global level.