Pope Francis has done his first extended one-on-one interview with a US TV network in the course of his 11-year papacy. The 87-year-old Pope on 24 April did an interview in Rome with news anchor Norah O’Donnell of CBS (the abbreviation of Columbia Broadcasting System), one of the main commercial broadcast television and radio networks

A new study from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) looks at the differing views of US Catholics on the environmental issues raised by Pope Francis, and specially addresses their views on what has come to be known as “climate justice”. Climate justice is an approach to environmental action that focuses on

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – A leading Catholic expert on the environment has said that under Pope Francis’ leadership, “the whole church is waking up” to the climate crisis. “It feels like Pope Francis is acting as a barometer for climate action,” said Neil Thorns, Director of Advocacy and Communications at CAFOD, the overseas development arm

ROME – Warning that “the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point,” Pope Francis on Wednesday released a new document urging dramatic action to combat climate change ahead of the U.N. COP28 summit scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 12 in Dubai. The new document, titled Laudate Deum, or “Praise God”,

It is not easy to watch pictures of an elderly protestant clergywoman, sporting her dog collar, being arrested for breaching the peace as she disrupts traffic, as the Rev’d Sue Parfitt did. Or a dignified clerical grandfather from Macclesfield, the Rev’d Bill White, being carted off by uniformed police. Two sets of uniforms, one representing

In answer to a question thrown at me more than once, and only occasionally with accompanying rotten fruit, “Yes, I do call myself a Christian.” The most recent inquisition came from a climate-change zealot after I questioned London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan to expand the ULEZ zone. “Call yourself a Christian and you want ultra-high emissions?!” And so it always is when a Christian takes a position different from the received opinion of climate alarmism, but as Christians we should think carefully before partnering too quickly with the environmental lobby.

Each season has its place. The slanting golden light and warm colours of autumn are just round the corner.

Pope Francis has united with Orthodox and Anglican leaders to urge people everywhere to “eat, travel, spend, invest and live differently” in an attempt to save the planet from destruction. In their first ever joint statement, the Pope joined Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to plead with people