Daniel R. DiLeo

If Jesuit schools are to avoid corporatization and make mission- and science-based greenhouse gas reduction commitments, they should require substantive formation in Catholic social teaching for senior administrators and trustees.

The near-total lack of U.S. Catholic decarbonization commitments is a failure to live the church's evangelical mission. It is a social sin of omission that compromises moral commitments, including to protect human life.

Those utilizing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' socially responsible investment guidelines must consider divestment from fossil fuels. The Catholic Theological Society of America shows the way.

In more than 12,000 columns by U.S. bishops between 2014 and 2019 — the period directly before and after the publication of Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" — only 93 mentioned climate change, global warming or their equivalent at all.

Commentary: Our research about the disparities in how the bishops' conference publicly discussed Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama leads us to anticipate that church leaders may be more overtly critical and less overtly praising of Biden moving forward.