The Covenant’s 2023 Feast of St. Francis educational 90-minute program enables U.S. Catholics to host in-person or virtual sessions to grow
in their understanding and call to care for creation as integral to the Catholic faith through prayer, education and action.
We lift a united Catholic voice to support sensible, faith-informed climate public policies.
Catholic Climate Ambassadors deliver Catholic teaching on climate change to local audiences around the country. Each ambassador is well versed in the deep history of Catholic teaching about ecology, and brings a wealth of individual experiences from organic farming to religious vocation to geoscience to inform its application. These expert envoys...
In response to the release of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si’, the Catholic Climate Covenant developed Catholic Energies to help Catholic campuses, including parishes, schools, healthcare facilities, and other buildings take meaningful and measurable steps to reduce their energy consumption and costs.
Creation Care teams enable committed Catholics to lead the charge to solve climate change—together. We achieve more together, and united action is at the heart of this program.
Whether it’s a group from your parish, workplace, or school, your Creation Care team unites the people around you. You’ll work to make a difference, create more sustainable facilities, and advocate for faith-informed climate policies. Creation Care teams help transform your community to be, in Pope Francis’s words, “...
Earth Day 2023
Simple Living: God's Vision of Abundant Life This year’s Earth Day program theme is Simple Living: God's Vision of Abundant Life. The approximately one-hour educational and prayer program is the perfect way for our families, parishes, schools, and religious communities to explore the concept of "Adoption of Sustainable Lifestyles", one of the seven goals of the Laudato Si' Action Platform. The program contains prayers, readings, discussion questions, a short video, and...
Simple Living: God's Vision of Abundant Life This year’s Earth Day program theme is Simple Living: God's Vision of Abundant Life. The approximately one-hour educational and prayer program is the perfect way for our families, parishes, schools, and religious communities to explore the concept of "Adoption of Sustainable Lifestyles", one of the seven goals of the Laudato Si' Action Platform. The program contains prayers, readings, discussion questions, a short video, and...
A Virtual Celebration of Earth Day and Laudato Si’ . Submit prayers, meditations, stories, statements, reflections, art, photos, poems, songs, videos, etc. that lift up your love and hope for God’s creation!
Take the St. Francis/Laudato Si’ Pledge to care for creation and the poor
"I pledge to pray, live, and advocate Laudato Si'"
Take the St. Francis/Laudato Si' Pledge to follow in the footsteps of Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home. By taking the pledge, you (re)commit to living out the vision of the encyclical and...
In our colleges and universities, community organizations, high schools and grade schools, volunteer programs, and the pews, young people are already demonstrating a willingness “to change, to turn back, get up and learn from life” when it comes to creation care. At Catholic Climate Covenant, we’re interested in nothing short of building a movement of young Catholics ignited by the joy of the Gospel, attuned to the cries of the earth and the poor, capable of turning back the clock on climate...