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Pardes Seleh of Campus Reform reported.

Students from 82 colleges urge Pope Francis to divest Vatican from fossil fuels

Fossil Free, a global network of “campaigns and campaigners” aimed at economically hindering companies that profit from fossil fuels, has recently busied itself with lobbying the Pope to join its cause.

The group has now extended its influence to 400 institutions worldwide. Its newest effort, which has unified a group of students from 82 colleges and universities in the U.S., urges the Vatican to divest from fossil fuels.

On June 18, Pope Francis tweeted, “[t]he earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.” In a tweet the next day he wrote that, “[r]educing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility.” He also released an encyclical which read, “[w]e know that technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels… needs to be progressively replaced without delay.”

In response to the Pope’s statements, Fossil Free UCLA and other Fossil Free campus groups across the U.S. took to urging the Pope to divest the Vatican from all institutions and organizations that employ and/or take benefit from the usage of fossil fuels.

In a letter to Pope Francis, Fossil Free students boasted of their accomplishments on their college campuses and asked him to join their cause.

“We are standing on the precipice of climate catastrophe,” the letter reads. “[W]e have been inspired by your call for climate justice and the awakening of the Catholic and global community to the systemic causes of the climate crisis.”

The letter also includes a call to action for Pope Francis to divest the Vatican from fossil fuels and a request for him to publicly call on universities to do the same during his visit to the U.S.