text: Catholic groups like Catholic Climate Covenant which care about the environment and global warming are a laudable thing, but at this point their letter-writing amounts to too little, too late. They might as well be screaming at the wind for howling. Perhaps if they'd used every ounce of their clout BEFORE last November's election to appeal to the USCCB to denounce Trump it might have made some difference, though I seriously doubt it. The bishops conference was too invested in putting a Republican in the White House because of their twin obsessions abortion and gay marriage that they didn't care about anything else. Now it's too late. All their blathering, letter-writing, etc. is just whistling past the graveyard. They helped elect Donald J. Trump, now they must live with their choice and all that goes with it. Perhaps in 2020 they'll be singing a different tune, though I doubt even that. Trump and his Republican congress could trash everything and the bishops would still be on board.