Laudato Si' at 10: Impact on the church and world

Pope Francis plants a tree in the Vatican Gardens Oct. 4, 2019. (Laudato Si' Movement)

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This year marks the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis' landmark encyclical, "Laudato Si', On Care for Our Common Home,” issued on May 24, 2015, Pentecost Sunday. The "Laudato Si' at 10: Impact on the church and world" series features all of NCR's Laudato Si' anniversary coverage.

Tomás Insua, co-founder and former executive director of Laudato Si' Movement, asks: Was Laudato Si' a powerless drop in the ocean? Or did it set in motion a powerful oceanic undercurrent that will ultimately prove transformative despite the chaos on the surface? Read more here.

Copies of Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," are stacked on a table prior to a presentation on the encyclical June 30, 2015, at U.N. headquarters in New York City. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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Laudato Si' called all to climate action, but omitted women from the conversation

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"The women problem" in Laudato Si' is nothing new. The failure to centralize, regard and learn from women and their experiences abounds in Catholic theology and ecclesial realities. In the next decade, the church must fill this gap.