
CST and SDGs: Affordable and Clean Energy
As Pope Francis has declared, we must move from fossil fuels to clean energy, ensuring that those in poverty have access to clean and sustainable energy for authentic human development.

Majora Carter: Addressing Poverty through Environmental Justice and Community Restoration
Prayer ServiceWe offer this prayer service which offers Majora Carter as model for participation in our communities through understanding the systems and structures that shape these communities; we are called to...

And St. Francis Preached to the Birds
From the perspective of St. Francis of Assisi and Pope Francis, this prayer reflects on the sacred nature of every animate being in all eco-systems, all interconnected in the web of God's Creation.

CST and SDGs: Life On Land
This reflection focuses on Goal 15 of the Sustainable Development Goals: to conserve and restore the use of ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, drylands, and mountains. Reflection questions, steps...

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Film Discussion GuideAn Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power is Al Gore’s second film about the urgency of addressing climate change. This film discussion guide is a tool to #BeInconvenient and a call our political...

Clean Up the World Weekend
Bulletin InsertThis bulletin insert calls us to participate in the UN program to promote environmental justice from September 15-17 and to follow Pope Francis’ teaching to restore Creation.

CST and SDGs: Life Below Water
ReflectionThis resource discusses the threats to our world’s oceans, seas, and aquatic life and offers quotes from Pope Francis on the importance of water for human flourishing.

A Voice for the Poor and the Common Good
Creative VoiceCreative Voice Dan Misleh, Executive Director of Catholic Climate Covenant, shares his thoughts on climate change, Pope Francis, integral ecology, and the Catholic social teaching theme of Care for...

Naomi Klein: There Can Be No Justice Without Addressing Climate Change
Prayer ServiceThis prayer service is based on the words of Naomi Klein, Canadian author, journalist, and filmmaker, known for her climate justice activism and analyses of globalization, neoliberalism, and...

Reflection: CST and SDGs: Climate Action
ReflectionBoth the Sustainable Development Goals and Catholic social teaching stress the importance of caring for the natural environment and ending human-caused climate change. In addition to the reflection,...

Earth Day Prayer, 2017
PrayerInspired by the 2017 Earth Day theme, “Environmental and Climate Literacy,” this prayer calls us to an ecological conversion rooted in respect and knowledge of our complex and sacred common...

Peace to Our Earth
PrayerThis prayer for the natural environment is based on the line from Pope Francis’s 2013 Lenten Message, “Peace to our earth.”