In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Elizabeth Scalia of OSV News expounds on the important lesson she learned while watching the U.S. bishops’ fall assembly in Baltimore. “It was an uneven engagement as the meeting’s vigor waxed and waned,” she
Two things for every Catholic to consider from the second session of the U.S. bishops’ fall assembly
Our Sunday Visitor editor Father Patrick Briscoe writes that with much on the agenda for the second general session of the U.S. bishops’ fall assembly in Baltimore, two key discussions arose that touch on the lives of every Catholic. First, the war
The U.S. bishops wrapped up their annual fall assembly in Baltimore today, and with its adjournment came a turnover in conference leadership. Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City was elected secretary; Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore was elected vice president, and Archbishop
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, was elected by members of the U.S. conference of bishops at their annual fall plenary assembly to serve as chairman of their committee on canonical affairs and Church governance. Paprocki, himself an accomplished and acclaimed canon
U.S. Catholic bishops recognized canonization causes underway for three American women Nov. 16 during their plenary assembly in Baltimore. The causes of Mother Margaret Mary Healy-Murphy, foundress of the San Antonio-based Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate; Cora Louise Evans,
Church risks ‘Pyrrhic victory’ without ‘radical solidarity’ post-Dobbs, warns new USCCB vice president
U.S. Catholics should seek to foster a unified message of “radical solidarity” for a culture of life in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, said Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, the chair
The bishops of the United States have gathered for their annual fall assembly, taking place in Baltimore November 14-17. While much of the assembly concerns administrative processes necessary for church governance, such as the election of Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the U.S.
The U.S. bishops Nov. 15 were urged to remain focused on the church's missionary role of spreading the Gospel message and to know that despite a growing secularism in the U.S., "the vast majority of our neighbors still believe in God."
Gathered in
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services was elected Nov. 15 to a three-year term as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the bishops' fall general assembly in Baltimore.
The native of suburban Cleveland was
In a Mass Nov. 14 to mark the opening of the 2022 fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles called on his brother bishops to take time for self-examination and to renew