The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has listed on its website some resources for use in dioceses, parishes and in the home during the Season of Creation 2020.

On the fifth anniversary of the publication of Pope Francis’s landmark encyclical letter, Laudato ‘Si, Bishop Mark

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In a strong message on care for creation, Pontiff warns that “Sin leads man to consider himself the god of creation, to see himself as its absolute master and to use it, not for the purpose willed by the Creator but for his own interests.”

Describing the threat to the planet's oceans as an “emergency”, Pontiff warns “We need to pray as if everything depended on God’s providence, and work as if everything depended on us.”

“People of faith cannot escape, nor should we want to escape, the expansion of perspective on the cosmos that he has given us."

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin warns representatives of the legal establishment: “A political or judicial system which betrays or undervalues the equality and the dignity of all, betrays its calling and betrays humanity.”

“In previous generations, there was a tendency to assume that everyone believed the same thing... it was sometimes more about conformism than about a personal relationship with God."

The opening sequence of the concert is a screen presentation of creation with the Sistine Chapel Choir.

Over 300,000 postcards to be distributed to parishioners this weekend about the wonderful gift of human life.

As Churches we have often neglected our responsibilities for the protection of creation or have even distorted the true attitude towards the environment.

“It demonstrates to our elected representatives that protection of creation is important to us” - Bishop John McAreavey.

“It offers individual believers and the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation."

“Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.”

Bishop of Achonry leds the annual pilgrimage to Máméan last Sunday and urged the faithful to look after and preserve God's handiwork.

Fourth deacon ordained for the Diocese of Meath as Navan prepares for next Sunday's ordination of Rev Robert McGivney.

There are those who wish to incite and foment an atmosphere of war deliberately for the purpose of selling arms Pontiff warns.

"See the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is an environment to be safeguarded, a garden to be cultivated”.

Ecological awareness and conversion growing in the Catholic Church in Ireland. Call for Pope's encyclical on environment to be promoted.

Church communities throughout Ireland prepare to pray in solidarity with the Christian women of the Bahamas.

Killing in the name of God “is an aberration” Pontiff warns but adds that responsible people should recognise the boundaries of civility.

Global climate campaign 350.org petitions Pope Francis.

The school is organised by the Columban Ecological Institute at Dalgan Park.

Christians must reject "climate of violence which all too often in recent times has mired our city, as yesterday when a six year old child was shot."

Evidence for creation and supernatural design in contemporary physics considered.