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Cardinal named Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal recipient
Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, former prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, will be honoured next month as the first recipient of the Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal. Source: EWTN News.
‘Pope’s garden’ goes totally organic
A vegetable garden and orchard inside the Vatican walls, which historically provided food for the Pope’s household, is now cultivated using exclusively organic farming techniques. Source: EWTN News.
Shaping Church’s response to environmental and social challenges
The Catholic Earthcare Season of Creation online gathering last week explored how Indigenous wisdom, ecological justice and synodal listening can help shape the Church’s response to today’s environmental and social challenges. Source: Melbourne Catholic.
Catholics urged to recognise the ways they have failed to care for nature
Celebrating a new form of the Catholic Mass “for the care of creation”, Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to contemplate nature as well as the ways they have shirked their responsibility to care for it. Source: NCR Online.
Registrations closing for Catholic Earthcare gathering
Australians are being urged to secure their place before registrations close on Wednesday for the Catholic Earthcare Season of Creation Gathering 2026. Source: Caritas Australia.
Change of heart needed to end wars and heal Earth: Pope
The social and ecological devastation wrought by war represents not just a political failure, but a moral crisis rooted in a divided heart in need of conversion, Pope Leo XIV says in his message for the 2026 World Day of Prayer for Creation. Source: OSV News.
Bathurst Diocese to ensure its trees live long lives
Bathurst Diocese will launch a comprehensive tree protection plan on September 1, the World Day of Prayer for Creation.
Australian appointed consultor to Vatican human development dicastery
Integral ecology expert Jacqui Remond has been appointed a consultor to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development by Pope Leo XIV. Source: Australian Catholic University.
Australians invited to unite in faith and action
Catholics across Australia will gather online next month during the Season of Creation to explore how faith can inspire action for people and the planet. Source: Caritas Australia.