Full Text of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’: Read Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical sets out the Church’s social teaching for the age of artificial intelligence. Read the complete document below.

Pope Leo XIV alongside a picture of his new encyclical released May, 25, 2026. (photo: EWTN News)

EWTN News Staff Vatican May 25, 2026


Pope Leo XIV signed Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of his pontificate, on May 15, 2026.

The document was formally released by the Holy See on May 25, 2026.

The encyclical develops the Churchʼs social teaching in light of artificial intelligence, situating new questions of human dignity, labor, and the common good within the tradition that runs from Rerum Novarum through Centesimus Annus and Laudato Si'.

Read the full encyclical as a PDF below.

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‘Colossal profits’: Christian leaders lambast fossil fuel giants as they demand EU windfall tax

Copyright European Union, 2025, licensed under CC BY 4.0

By Ruth Wright
Published on 21/05/2026 - 6:30 GMT+2

“Europe holds a historic duty and opportunity to lead the transition to a new era away from fossil fuels”, say faith groups from across the EU.

A coalition of Christian organisations has issued an urgent appeal to EU institutions: phase out fossil fuels and tax those who profit from them.

120 organisations from 20 EU countries have signed the first ever appeal of its kind.

“Europe has a unique opportunity and the moral responsibility to accelerate the phase out of fossil fuels and shift to clean energy, including through a permanent tax on the colossal profits of fossil fuel companies”, the document says. It was recently revealed by the Guardian newspaper that the world’s top 100 oil and gas companies made more than $30 million (€25.8m) every hour in profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran.

The appeal calls on the EU to “remain steadfast in its founding values of human dignity and the common good by accelerating a just energy transition.”

Signatory organisations include European and national faith-based institutions, including episcopal bodies, religious orders, social and environmental NGOs, international development charities, and Christian movements and communities. Organisations include Laudato Si’ Movement, Caritas Europa and the Central Committee of German Catholics.

Pope Leo XIV’s commitment to resilient Food Systems and Care for Creation

Pope Leo XIV’s commitment to resilient Food Systems and Care for Creation

By JESC

-July 10, 2025

Photo by Vatican News

In his address to the 44th Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) taking place in Rome June 28 – July 4, Pope Leo XIV has warned that the world is drifting ever further from the 2030 target of achieving zero hunger. A goal now imperiled by conflict, injustice, and environmental degradation.

The Holy Father condemned the use of hunger as a weapon of war and denounced political leaders who grow fat on the profits of the food business while civilians perish from hunger.

Beyond condemning the exploitation of the vulnerable, the Pope has emphasized the urgent need to transform global food systems so that they are both resilient and just in the face of mounting climate change. “Food systems have a major influence on climate change, and vice versa,” he stated. “Without decisive and coordinated climate action, it will be impossible to guarantee agricultural and food systems capable of feeding a growing world population. Producing food is not enough: it is also important to ensure that food systems are sustainable and provide healthy and affordable diets for all.” This call to action carries forward the legacy of Pope Francis and his landmark encyclical Laudato Si’.

In a sign of this deepening commitment, Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass for the Care of Creation on July 9, 2025. The private liturgy with the staff of the Borgo Laudato Sì, the educational center at Castel Gandolfo, highlighted the spiritual dimension of ecological responsibility. He called the garden where the mass was held a ´kind of natural cathedral´, with its peaceful, serene natural surroundings standing in contrast to the disasters inflicted by humans. We are all stewards of God’s creation and this must be reflected in our policies, prayers, and daily lives.

Photo by Vatican News

To mark this occasion, the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments have introduced a new formulary in the Roman Missal dedicated to the Care for Creation. This liturgical offering commemorates both the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’ and the 35th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s 1990 World Day of Peace message, “Peace with God the Creator, Peace with All of Creation.”

Cardinal Michael Czerny also underscored that care for creation cannot be a peripheral concern, but must be a fundamental expression of Christian living. He warned against approaches to ecological reform that ignore the cry of the poor, stressing that ecological justice cannot be decoupled from social consequences.

The Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC) welcomes this commitment and reaffirms its call to care for the creation, particularly through its work on climate justice, in collaboration with many partners such as Ecojesuit and the European Laudato Si« alliance, and the promotion of sustainable food systems within the Our Daily Bread (ODB) network.

Enikö Fehéreková
JESC Ecology Officer

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Pope: God will ask us if we have cared for our common home

Pope: God will ask us if we have cared for our common home

October 2, 2025  Ecojes Admin


Pope Leo addresses participants in an international conference on climate justice and reflects on Pope Francis’ landmark ecological encyclical Laudato Si, noting that when the time comes, God will ask us if we cared for our common home.

Posted on: October 1, 2025 – by: Francesca Merlo – vaticannews.va

On Wednesday afternoon, marking the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’, Pope Leo XIV addressed participants in the Raising Hope Conference, organised by the Laudato Si’ Movement.

In his address, the Pope expressed gratitude for the legacy of Pope Francis’ encyclical, noting how its message has inspired schools, dioceses, academic programmes, and international dialogue.

“Its impact,” he said, “has extended to summits, interreligious initiatives, economic and business circles, as well as theological and bioethical studies.” Above all, he noted that the phrase “care for our common home” has become a standard phrase, used in academic work and public discourse across peoples and continents.

A conversion of heart

While recalling the achievements of the past decade, Pope Leo emphasised that the challenges identified in Laudato Si’ are “even more relevant today than they were ten years ago.” These challenges, he said, are not only political and social, but also spiritual, calling for what Pope Francis described as a “conversion of heart.”

The Pope explained that the heart “is where the deepest searching takes place, where one’s ultimate identity is found, and where decisions are forged. It is only by returning to the heart that a true ecological conversion can take place.” This transformation, he continued, means shifting “from collecting data to caring; from environmental discourse to lifestyles inspired by faith and love of God.”

All are one

Quoting Pope Francis’ description of Saint Francis of Assisi, the Holy Father reminded participants that ecological concern, justice for the poor, social commitment, and inner peace are inseparable.

Looking ahead to upcoming global summits, including COP30 and the UN’s 2026 Water Conference, the Pope urged leaders to heed the cries of “the Earth and the poor, families, indigenous peoples, involuntary migrants and believers throughout the world.”

What will be our answer?

Concluding his address, Pope Leo asked the question: “God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that He created, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters. What will be our answer?”

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Pope Leo XIV calls for more regulations to address climate change

Pope Leo XIV calls for more regulations to address climate change

By Callie Patteson

October 1, 2025 11:57 am

Pope Leo XIV called on governments worldwide to increase regulations aimed at mitigating climate change, continuing the teachings of the late Pope Francis.

The Chicago-born pope made the remarks at the Raising Hope conference just south of Rome. The conference is intended to mark the 10th anniversary of Francis's landmark encyclical on the environment.

Published in 2015, Laudato Si called on the Catholic Church to put the environment at the center of its social teachings. Francis wrote that the Earth was starting to look like "an immense pile of filth," adding that the church holds a moral obligation to support efforts aimed at combating climate change.

Leo praised his predecessor's words and his impact on Wednesday, saying the encyclical has greatly inspired the church in the years since it was published.

However, Leo warned that the challenges Francis wrote about are more relevant today, not only in a religious and spiritual nature, but also in a political one.

Leo pointed to an apostolic exhortation released by Francis in 2023, which illustrated how divisive the matter of climate change has become and criticized those who have "chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change."

Francis insisted that caring for the environment is intrinsically linked with the Catholic faith, later putting pressure on individuals to more strongly advocate mitigating actions.

"Pope Francis emphasized that the most effective solutions would not come from individual efforts alone, but above all from major political decisions on the national and international levels," Leo said.

"Everyone in society, through nongovernmental organizations and advocacy groups, must put pressure on governments to develop and implement more rigorous regulations, procedures, and controls," he continued. "Citizens need to take an active role in political decision-making at national, regional, and local levels. Only then will it be possible to mitigate the damage done to the environment."

Only five months into his tenure as pope, Leo has made it clear that tackling climate change and lowering the risks of global warming for poor and vulnerable individuals will be a priority during his papacy.

In July, Leo held a special mass urging Catholics to engage in efforts aimed at combating the effects of climate change, noting that the planet is experiencing an "ecological crisis."

Leo has also prioritized environmentally friendly changes in the Vatican, including using solar power to make Vatican City the first carbon-neutral state. Additionally, he launched a new ecological center and farm dedicated to sustainability.

The American pope's emphasis on addressing climate change is a break from the current political focus of the U.S. government. President Donald Trump has rolled back numerous climate-related policies and again pulled the United States from the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement.

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has escalated pressure on the European Union to do the same, targeting methane and other climate change-related regulations that fossil fuel companies say will hurt their ability to increase exports abroad.

While Energy Secretary Chris Wright, for example, has said climate change is a real phenomenon and a global challenge, the administration has insisted it is not an essential threat and is less important to address than getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race.

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Catholics must respond to environmental injustice with prayer, concrete action, pope says

The Catholic Church joins other churches and Christian communities in marking Sept. 1 as World Day of Prayer for Creation. Pope Leo XIV wrote a message for the observance.

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation on the grounds of the Borgo Laudato Si' ecology center in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Cristian Gennari, pool)

Carol Glatz
August 29, 2025

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Ravaging the earth and creating environmental injustices are not what God had in mind when he entrusted creation to humanity, Pope Leo XIV said.

In fact, following Pope Francis' teachings on integral ecology must be accepted as "the right path to follow," the pope said in his message for the 2025 World Day of Prayer for Creation.

"Nature itself is reduced at times to a bargaining chip, a commodity to be bartered for economic or political gain. As a result, God's creation turns into a battleground for the control of vital resources," Pope Leo wrote.

"Agricultural areas and forests peppered with landmines, 'scorched earth' policies, conflicts over water sources, and the unequal distribution of raw materials, which penalizes the poorer nations and undermines social stability itself," are among the many wounds inflicted against creation and "are the effect of sin," he wrote.

"This is surely not what God had in mind when he entrusted the earth to the men and women whom he created in his image," he wrote in his message, which was released by the Vatican July 2.

POPE LEO SHOCKS WORLD with NEW VATICAN CLIMATE ACTION CENTRE! (Borgo Laudato Si)

POPE LEO SHOCKS WORLD with NEW VATICAN CLIMATE ACTION CENTRE!

HeavenDailyNews Sep 4, 2025

Pope Leo has just unveiled a MASSIVE new ecological training hub in Castel Gandolfo, Italy — the Borgo Laudato Si — covering 55 hectares dedicated to education, sustainability, and global climate action. This bold move continues Pope Francis’s legacy but takes it to the NEXT LEVEL. Is the Vatican becoming a global leader in the fight against climate change? Discover the details, the mission, and why this centre could CHANGE the future of our planet. Don’t miss it!

Pope Leo is becoming the climate champion we need

Aug. 17, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Pope Leo XIV leads the Mass for the Care of Creation in Castel Gandolfo, southeast of Rome on July 9, 2025. (YARA NARDI/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/TNS)


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Mark Gongloff
Syndicated columnist


While the leader of 340 million Americans furiously works to derail climate action, the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics is embracing it.

In May, when Pope Leo XIV succeeded the late Pope Francis, I suggested he could be the kind of climate champion the world needs when President Donald Trump seems determined to turn the U.S. from one of the world’s leading protectors of the environment to one of its worst vandals. So far, Leo has given no reason to doubt he’ll be at least as green as Francis, who was arguably the greenest pope in modern history.

Italy’s government recently approved a 2024 proposal by Francis to build a solar array in a field north of Rome that will generate enough power to provide “the complete energy sustenance of Vatican City State,” as Francis put it. Leo championed the plan just weeks after succeeding Francis, calling it an example for the world. “We all know the effects of climate change, and it is necessary to truly care for the whole world, for all of creation,” Leo told Italian state TV at the site in June.

The solar array, which still needs Italian parliamentary approval, will put the Vatican among the handful of countries generating all their power from renewable energy. Of course, at 0.17 square miles, the Vatican will be the tiniest of that tiny group.

But a little symbolism in this case could go a long way. Trappings like solar panels on the Vatican roof and an all-electric Popemobile aren’t just green window dressing. They manifest a worldview expounded by Francis in his 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, which condemned humanity’s degradation of the environment for short-term financial gain.

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Pope Leo XIV is Going to Celebrate the First Climate Change Mass in Castel Gandolfo as the Satanists Celebrate their Black Mass Nearby!

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In Confessions of an Illuminati Volume 12, I explain how, “Pope Francis’ Laudato si’ the leftist encyclical, published in 2015,” is “mostly read for its political parts and not for its Catholic message,” and is still considered “a (sort of) mandatory reading” for leftist “politicians, diplomats, and economists, who have widely used excerpts of it in their speeches in the last few years,” especially in Europe, but also in the United States. Against any scientific certainty about so-called “climate change “the late Pope Francis, who loved dogmas, declared that the science of climate change” was indeed “clear,” and beyond criticism. The Catholic church, as I explained in my latest book, is now in hands of the Jesuits who have been pushing this agenda since the late 60s, must suddenly be forced to view “climate change as a moral issue that must be addressed to protect the earth and everyone on it.”

Now, with Pope Francis’ successor, the diabolical direction instigated by the Jesuits in favor of the lies and propaganda of so-called “climate change,” is moving forward, as Pope Leo XIV is going to celebrate for the first time a new votive Mass devised “for the care of creation” on July 9, 2025, in which the current pope will use, in a private mass for the “Borgo Laudato Si’” an educational group established by Pope Francis at Castel Gandolfo to promote “ecological conversion” by using the ”Pontifical Villas’ garden as an example,[1] a set of new prayers in favor of the Jesuit green agenda officially entitled “Missa pro custodia creationis” (“ Mass for the care of creation”). The term “Castel Gandalf” has been used by Alex Jones in the past in a combination of “Castel Gandolfo” (the Pope’s summer residence outside Rome) and “Gandalf” (a character from the Lord of the Rings series).

The new Mass prayers were presented a couple of days ago in the Vatican with a press conference by the influential Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, and the Franciscan Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.[2]

Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, participated in the collaborative effort to create the prayers, alongside other Vatican departments mostly controlled by the Jesuits.

Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, made the following speech that gives us a full understanding of how the Jesuits are further high-jacking the Catholic Mass in line with the other monstrosities of the Second Vatican Council:

In the Roman Missal, there are 49 Masses and Prayers for Various Needs and Occasions. Twenty are for the Church, 17 for civil needs, and 12 for various occasions. Among the formularies “for civil needs,” today we are happy to introduce a “Mass for the care of creation” (Missa pro custodia creationis), in response to requests suggested by Laudato si’.

Why reviving a 2,600-year-old spiritual practice made my life better

(Illustration by Cornelia Li for The Washington Post)

Advice by Michael J. Coren
January 23, 2024 at 6:30 a.m. EST

Every Friday around sunset, I close my laptop. For 24 hours, my work is done. No email. No news. No social media. If it’s work-related, it waits.

What I try to do is — nothing at all. Or, rather, I spend time with people I love, usually outdoors. I swim or surf. I share a meal with friends and family. Sometimes, I just lie on my back in the park enjoying the sun.

It has rekindled a sense of joy I last felt when I was a kid with nothing to do, and gratitude for whatever miraculous series of events led me here to this moment.

For years, this one-day pause seemed untenable. For many, it’s virtually impossible to set aside an entire day for rest free from responsibilities to work and family.

But on the verge of burnout a few years ago, I began to practice a Sabbath. Giving myself permission to stop doing was hard. My brain betrayed my intentions, unconsciously leading me to flick open my phone, check work emails or scurry ahead to a Monday that hadn’t yet begun. Disconnecting took practice, and still does.

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Let's repent (of) 'ecological sins' says pope

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(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 16 - Pope Francis on Saturday called on believers to repent their "ecological sins". "With the help of God's grace, let us adopt lifestyles marked by less waste and unnecessary consumption," the pope said via Twitter in a post with the hashtag #SeasonOfCreation. The pope has spoken out frequently about the need to combat the climate crisis. The message was posted in the run-up to the publication on October 4 of the second version of his Laudato Si' (Praise Be to You) encyclical. In the 2015 encyclical "on care for our common home", the Argentine pontiff criticized consumerism and environmental degradation, and called for action to combat global warming. (ANSA).

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John Kerry meets Pope Francis privately, says he's in great form and spirits

By Philip Pullella

June 19, 20233:53 PM EDT

Updated 14 hours ago


VATICAN CITY, June 19 (Reuters) - U.S. climate envoy John Kerry met Pope Francis on Monday, the first official to have a private audience with him since his discharge from hospital, and told Reuters that he found the pontiff "in great spirits and in great form".

Francis, 86, left Rome's Gemelli hospital on Friday, nine days after surgery to repair an abdominal hernia.

"He was in great spirits and great form ... I was really amazed. He embraced a lot of our conversation. It was a nice meeting," said Kerry, who was the first person on the pope's public schedule.

"I found the pope to be very much the pope that I have had the privilege of seeing several times over the last years. He was strong. He was clear. He seemed in very good form and good spirits," Kerry, 79, said in an interview in front of St. Peter's Square.

In 2015, Francis wrote Laudato Si (Praised Be), a landmark encyclical on the need to protect the environment, combat climate change and reduce use of fossil fuels. An encyclical is the highest form of papal writing.

"Laudato Si stands up as a major and important turning point for a lot of people," Kerry said.

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The former U.S. secretary of state said the pope had a "profound impact" on the 2015 Paris climate conference that set goals to limit global warming, and he thanked Francis for continuing "to sound the alarm" about the dangers and challenges of climate change.

Kerry is having a series of meetings ahead of COP28, the latest U.N. climate summit that is to be held at the end of this year in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

"Now we have to continue and have the next movement, if you will, and I think COP28 in Dubai presents a good opportunity to do that because we all understand the implications of what's been happening over the last few years," Kerry said.

"This is getting more challenging, more serious, more immediate than it has been at any time, and I think that you are going to see more action as a result of that," he said.

The head of the United Nations climate body has said he was not satisfied with the outcome of a recent 10-day conference in Berlin, and that the process was moving too slowly given the urgency of the crisis.

(This story has been refiled to remove extraneous word 'Friday' from paragraph 1)
Reporting by Philip Pullella; editing by Toby Chopra and Mark Heinrich

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