During Wednesday’s dialogue, cardinals, Vatican priests, bishops, authors, and organizational leaders around the world spoke to the power of the faith-based divestment movement.

They shared how Catholics have a physical, moral, and theological imperative to divest from fossil fuels, and how all of us are called to bring up divestment to Church leaders everywhere.

Not only is divestment the right thing to do, it’s working!

Ten years ago, Exxon was the biggest company on Earth. But now it’s “besieged and embattled because of the work people have done on many fronts, but divestment being a really important one,” 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben said.

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich laid out the next steps in clear terms. Bishops are very busy people, he said. But they pay attention to topics that people keep mentioning. “So write to your bishop. Tell them about it.”