God's Planet

02/18/2022

"Integral human development is closely linked to the obligations which flow from man’s relationship with the natural environment." Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate

11/25/2021

We’re just getting started, so join us! www.godsplanet.us

The California Conference of Catholic Bishops is joining Pope Francis in the launch of the Laudato Si' Action Platform (LSAP), which kicked off on November 14. The LSAP is a list of seven goals that the Holy Father has outlined to help spur a worldwide grassroots effort to mobilize Catholics to take...

11/15/2021

Today a national coalition of U.S. Catholic organizations announced the “We’re All Part of God’s Plan(et)” campaign to educate, inspire and equip the U.S. Catholic community to embrace and act upon the teachings of Laudato Si’ and to care for creation.

10/18/2021

"Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change, desertification, the deterioration and loss of productivity in vast agricultural areas, the pollution of rivers and aquifers, the loss of biodiversity, the increase of natural catastrophes and the deforestation of equatorial and tropical regions?" Pope Benedict XVI, Message for the 2010 World Day of Peace

10/15/2021

"The environment must be seen as God’s gift to all people, and the use we make of it entails a shared responsibility for all humanity, especially the poor and future generations." Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate

10/12/2021

"Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of “environmental refugees”, people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it – and often their possessions as well – in order to face the dangers and uncertainties of forced displacement?" Pope Benedict XVI, Message for the 2010 World Day of Peace

10/09/2021

"Contemplating the beauty of creation inspires us to recognize the love of the Creator, that Love which “moves the sun and the other stars.” Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, ###III, 145

10/09/2021

"I also observed that whenever nature, and human beings in particular, are seen merely as products of chance or an evolutionary determinism, our overall sense of responsibility wanes." Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate No.48.

10/06/2021

“The issue of environmental degradation challenges us to examine our life-style and the prevailing models of consumption and production, which are often unsustainable from a social, environmental and even economic point of view." Pope Benedict XVI, Message for the 2010 World Day of Peace

10/04/2021

“There is a growing awareness that world peace is threatened… by a lack of due respect for nature”. Pope John Paul II, Message for the World Day of Peace 1990

09/30/2021

[technology] must serve to reinforce the covenant between human beings and the environment, a covenant that should mirror God’s creative love”. Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate, 69