Friday, February 24, 2023
Laudato Si’ Contest winners recognized

Winners of the Laudato Si’ Contest were honored on February 23 with an awards ceremony and pizza party. Schools from around the Archdiocese were represented by students, with families, teachers,… Read More

Monday, February 13, 2023
Laudato Si’ Contest Winners

Winners have been announced in the 2022 Laudato Si’ Contest. Students throughout the Archdiocese were asked to submit works around the importance of water, using Pope Francis’ encyclical letter and… Read More

Monday, March 28, 2022
Archdiocese committed to seven-year Laudato Si’ Action Platform

Laudato Si’ Action Platform, a new global campaign to bring the message of his 2015 encyclical more fully into the lives of the faithful

Tuesday, March 01, 2022
Vatican book project features local take on Laudato si’

It started with a phone call from Cardinal Peter Turkson, then-Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Pope Francis had come up with an idea for a… Read More

Tuesday, February 08, 2022
“Green” stormwater projects in pipeline for four Catholic schools

The sprawling asphalt playgrounds and parking lots of four San Francisco parish school campuses will be retrofitted soon to reduce the volume of stormwater runoff that occurs in “hardscaped” urban… Read More

Thursday, February 03, 2022
Laudato Si’ grants awarded to two archdiocesan schools

The Catholic Climate Covenant recently announced winners of the Victory Noll Sisters Small Grants Program, and two organizations in the Archdiocese of San Francisco were among the 100 winners.

Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Statement by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone On the Occasion of the Launch of the Holy Father’s Laudato Si Action Platform

The Laudato Si Action Platform is a global initiative launched by Pope Francis to develop “a new ecological approach that can transform our way of inhabiting the world, our lifestyles,… Read More