If the Catholic Church Were a Country, It Would Be the Third Most Populous After China and India.

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6. It was.

But to my mind the best thing to read is how the Church is willing to act on the what it's learned from its past mistakes about science, now fully embrace all the tools it can to be engaged in climate mitigation. It seems willing to push its resources in that direction by seeing itself as a part of Earth, not apart from Earth. (One cynical take is that in this global situation, it knows its wealth will come to nothing if it doesn't use it.)

Another best thing in the article, imo, is how just one believer helped the oldest Western institution do that. As an atheist I've broad brushed believers as the bane of the planet, but I realize I have to take all that back.

There are some leaders who lead from behind. So perhaps this believer's influence in the Church's massive move to climate mitigation will help its leaders connect to other mitigations.
Example:

In his Easter letter last year, Pope Francis observed that the pandemic had hugely exacerbated economic stresses that were already being endured by people all over the world. “This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage,” he wrote—advice that the Church has yet to apply to itself.