In new political document, Catholic bishops emphasize abortion over climate change - The Washington Post

Some criticized the document for placing a particular priority on abortion compared with other issues, such as the threat of global climate change. Bishop John Stowe, who oversees the Diocese of Lexington, Ky., lamented that climate change received "nowhere near the emphasis it should" in the document. 

Stowe said he found the treatment of climate change especially galling given that last month Pope Francis published "Laudate Deum," an update to his 2015 encyclical on the environment. In his new letter, the pontiff declared climate change to be "one of the principal challenges facing society and the global community," and he singled out the United States as a nation where emissions per individual are especially high. 

"The fact that we can't even bring up the issues that are timely for this election, or the urgency of them — it's baffling," Stowe told Religion News Service...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/11/17/us-catholic-bishops-meeting-2023/