Pray with Pope Francis Reflection – September 2024

Monday, September 9, 2024

Fr. Edmund Lo, SJ

In this month of September, our Holy Father invites us to pray that each one of us will hear and take to heart the cry of the Earth and of victims of natural disasters and climate change.

Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28): Address of His Holiness

Monday, December 4, 2023

Pope Francis

I offer my cordial greetings and I am grateful to each of you for having accepted the invitation of Cardinal Aveline to participate in these meetings.

Pope Francis’ Prayer Intention for September 2021

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Salt + Light Media

We join Pope Francis in praying that we all will make courageous choices for a simple and environmentally sustainable lifestyle.

Message from Pope Francis for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation 2020

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Salt + Light Media

Read Pope Francis' Message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation 2020 on the theme: Jubilee for the Earth.

Beans, beans, good for your… soul?

Monday, February 10, 2020

Kristina Glicksman

Today is World Pulses Day. Find out how beans, lentils, peas, and chickpeas could be your key to a spiritually fruitful Lent.

A Prayer for Our Environment from Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Salt + Light Media

On World Environmental Day, Join Salt+Light as we pray for the protection of our environment with this special excerpt taken from Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato Si'.

We can, we should, and we must: A call to hope for our Common Home

Friday, June 17, 2016

Julian Paparella

Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter Laudato Sì: Reflecting One Year Later In May 2006, former US Vice President Al Gore released the groundbreaking documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” While climate change debate has continued ever since, while concrete solutions seem to drip slower than maple sap in March. The question remains: are we willing to deal with this […]

CREATION on This is the Day

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Salt + Light Media

Last week, Fr. Bob Reed and our friends from the Boston-based, Catholic TV, featured Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE, of the University of St. Thomas-Houston, in their program, This is the Day to talk about Salt + Light’s new series CREATION. Sr. Damien worked Deacon Pedro and is featured on CREATION, our six-part series on the […]

Creation Now Available On Blu-Ray!

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Salt + Light Media

Why should we care for the environment? by Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE and Deacon Pedro Guevara-Mann We began with a simple question and the quest for the answer led us to fascinating discoveries. We never thought, when we started working on this project, that we would one day have an encyclical on the environment, on the care […]

Deacon-structing Creation: Part 2

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Deacon Pedro

Last week, I explained how asking a simple question like how we should care for the environment led us to ask many more other questions, from looking through the creation narrative in the Book of Genesis, to discovering that our desire to learn about created things begins with a sense of wonder. Sr. Damien Marie […]