Laudato Si’ at five: Dioceses embrace pope’s call for care of the earth
By Dennis Sadowski
Crux
May 20, 2020
CLEVELAND - The Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is “greening.”
So are the dioceses of Stockton, California; Joliet, Illinois; and others across the United States.
Participants in diocesan environmental ministries credit Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home, for raising awareness and motivating Catholics and others to act in countless ways to protect creation.