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Climate should be 'a central priority' for US church, says Bishop McElroy Omaha, Neb. — During an advocacy-focused breakout session at last month's "Laudato Si' and the U.S. Catholic Church" conference, a room of 30 Catholics were asked to list organizations and people within the church they perceived as engaged on the issue of climate change. Visit National Catholic Reporter's Online Classifieds to learn about job opportunities, events, retreats and more. Almost every corner of the church — colleges, hospitals, women religious, Pope Francis, aid organizations, even bishops' conferences of other countries — was represented in the 20 or so...

Catholic bishops of California have released a major pastoral statement calling for statewide ecological conversion... ...call to action on how all residents of the state are able to live out particular “ecological vocations”... ...consider ways to divest from fossil fuels and to pursue more energy efficient practices...

During the 2016 election, I watched with disbelief, as all but a few Catholic bishops said nothing — in complicit silence — as Hillary Clinton, aggressively pro-abortion, ran for president. All the bishops did was attack Donald Trump on immigration and his promise to build a wall on the Mexican border...There was no group of leaders more shocked by the election outcome than the U.S. bishops and their primary supporters on the Catholic left, including Catholic colleges and universities, most women and men’s religious orders, liberal Catholic media, Catholic Democrats in Congress, and Soros-funded groups such as Catholics In Alliance...