Russell Shaw looks back at this week’s fall assembly of the U.S. Conference for Catholic Bishops. The biggest news came at the end, when Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles made the surprise announcement that he had established a working group
When the U.S. bishops decided to continue with their annual fall meeting despite a pandemic, they took it online, shortened its length but also its scope, leaving only the most essential matters on the to-do list.
And at the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit will head up a special working group of the U.S. bishops to address issues surrounding the election of a Catholic president and policies that may come about that would be in conflict with Catholic teaching and
The first day of the virtual fall assembly of the U.S. Catholic bishops, Nov. 16, included discussion about the Vatican report on Theodore McCarrick, the ongoing pandemic and the church's response to racism.
The two-day assembly, which usually takes place in Baltimore, was
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, said the recently released report on former cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, describing his ascent to highest rungs of the church, even amid rumors of abuse, read like a list of the seven deadly sins.
"Lust, greed,
Admitting that people's faith in God "has been shaken" by the pandemic and related economic turmoil, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez called on his fellow bishops to take the news of the Resurrection and the triumph of life over death directly
With the U.S. bishops conducting their annual fall general meeting virtually, the papal nuncio to the United States told them they must join in the "Challenge of Healing the World."
"Here we are gathered, as brothers, but in a specific cultural and social
U.S. Catholic bishops will gather Nov. 16 and 17 for their annual meeting, but this time in an online format because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In what is undoubtedly one of the largest virtual gatherings of Catholic bishops in the world, more than
The U.S. Catholic bishops will vote for the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty and a chairman-elect for each of seven other standing committees before the USCCB convenes its annual fall general assembly, which is being
Mary's role in history has been as "a mother bearing a message of hope," from the first days of the church "when the mother of Jesus was at the center of the apostles' community in Jerusalem," said Los Angeles Archbishop José H.