‘Laudate Deum’: A brief guide for busy readers

Pope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation is an urgent sequel to his 2015 encyclical Laudato si’.

The world is not moving fast enough to mitigate the devastating effects of climate change, Pope Francis said Wednesday. 

Pope Francis attends a consistory for the creation of 21 new cardinals in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 30, 2023. © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

Writing in his new apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum (“Praise God”), released on the Oct. 4 feast of …