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Commentary: U.S. bishops fumble the ball on climate change

One can only wonder how different the Catholic leaders’ meeting would have been if they had consulted in a synodal fashion with the laity.

(Fernando Vergara | AP) This 2021 photo shows the lakebed of Suesca lagoon sitting dry and cracked, in Suesca, Colombia, after years of little rainfall. A United Nations report has said humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through climate change. U.S. Catholic bishops met recently and largely ignored climate change, writes a Religion News Service columnist.