In a ceremony at Borgo Laudato Si’ in Castel Gandolfo, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., received the first Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal on October 13.
The medal is awarded by Villanova University, the Pontiff’s undergraduate alma mater. At the ceremony, Cardinal Czerny, the prefect emeritus of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, said that “the only true solution” to ecological challenges is “to discard our many bad habits and adopt new paths through countless personal, communal and social changes of behavior.”