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The chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities has condemned the Senate’s failure to ban the killing of newborn babies who survive abortion.

The chairman of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration said Jesus Christ was the member of a refugee family, while applauding a judge’s block of President Trump’s executive order on refugee resettlement.

A number of Catholic bishops in Texas have criticized a decision by Governor Greg Abbott to place a moratorium on refugee settlements in the state, urging the Catholic governor to rethink his position.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) have issued a statement calling for a return to peace amid growing tensions between Iran and the United States.

Bishops in the U.S. have released a statement calling for solidarity with immigrants in preparation for the observation of National Migration Week from January 5-11, 2020.

The U.S. Bishops’ Conference has issued a statement slamming papal biographer Austen Ivereigh for publishing “false and misleading” stories about the American bishops’ relationship with the Vatican.

The Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration has “condemned” the final rule published by the Department of Homeland Security last week “relating to the care and custody of immigrant children under the Flores Settlement Agreement.”

The U.S. Catholic bishops issued a statement Thursday calling all Americans to a “change in language and rhetoric,” insisting that hateful language “can become the motivation for some to commit acts of violence.”

The United States Catholic bishops toned down language calling for stricter gun control legislation in the midst of three major shooting incidents in the country.

The United States Bishops are calling for prayer and action “in support of religious liberty at home and abroad” during Religious Freedom Week, which will run from June 22 to June 29.

The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities released a statement urging Congress to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

Three leaders of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) have written a joint letter to the members of the House of Representatives in opposition to the Equality Act, which, they say, “would impose sweeping regulations to the detriment of society as a whole.”

The United States Bishops have praised new legislation that will direct humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria and hold Islamic State militants accountable for their crimes.

In ordering the U.S. bishops to abstain from voting on measures aimed at addressing clerical sex abuse, Pope Francis may have inadvertently performed the most consequential and costly act of his papacy.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has approved a new pastoral letter on racism in response to what they call a “deterioration of the public discourse” and a rise in racially motivated violence.

President Trump’s recent proclamation addressing the mostly Central American migrants marching toward the U.S. border contravenes U.S. laws on immigration, declared a statement posted on the U.S. bishops website Wednesday.

Pope Francis has temporarily suspended efforts by the United States bishops to address the issue of clerical sex abuse, ordering them to wait until he can meet with them in February together with the presidents of other national bishops’ conferences from around the world.

The United States Catholic Bishops have lauded the provisions by the Trump administration that offer broad moral and religious exemptions to the HHS Mandate stemming from Obamacare.

The head of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) called for the enactment of “reasonable gun measures to help curb this mad loss of life” following a fatal shooting incident in Thousand Oaks, California, on Thursday.

The leadership of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a statement Tuesday in response to a report by the Pennsylvania grand jury on clerical sex abuse.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the international development agency of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), pays yearly dues of $54,000 to a lobbying agency which attacks pro-life and pro-family efforts, according to a report released Monday.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Chairman of U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life Committee, issued a statement Tuesday praising the Supreme Court’s decision not to force pro-life pregnancy centers to provide free advertising for the abortion industry.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is urging Catholics to press U.S. legislators to pass the Conscience Protection Act, which would ensure that health care personnel and others could not be coerced into participating in actions such as abortion that violate their moral conscience.

In a sharply worded statement, two chairmen of bishops’ committees have critiqued the Trump administration’s budget proposal for “underfunding” poverty and environmental programs while overfunding national security measures.

Catholic Archbishop of Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich says, “it would be a horrible injustice” not to give amnesty to the nearly 800,000 to 3.5 million illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Cardinal DiNardo, the Archbishop of Gavelston-Houston and President of the pro-open borders United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) organization, says Congress should commemorate Thanksgiving Day with the “immediate passage” of an amnesty for illegal aliens and foreign nationals.

A new article in Catholic media praises the two cardinals most conspicuous for their vocal criticism of President Trump as champions of a “culture of encounter.”

The plight of Christian minorities suffering persecution in Muslim-majority nations is on the brink of being forgotten, indicated the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace.

Archbishop Joseph Naumann has qualified abortion as the great “moral crisis of our time,” overshadowing immigration, health care, and capital punishment.

The former doctrinal chief of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) has written a forceful letter to Pope Francis, criticizing the pontiff’s “intentionally ambiguous” teaching, derision of conservatives and resentfulness of constructive criticism.