On the eve of the Pope’s visit to the United States, Michael Sean Winters reports on the Catholic universities reconsidering investment in fossil fuel firms following Francis’ encyclical, Laudato si’ Two weeks before Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment was released, Georgetown University announced it was divesting all endowment funds from those companies whose primary business is mining coal. “As a Catholic and Jesuit university, we are called to powerfully engage the world, human culture and the environment – bringing to bear the intellectual and spiritual resources that our community is built upon,” said Georgetown’s president, John J. DeGioia, when announcing the decision. When Laudato si’ was released, it specifically ment