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.
The United States Catholic bishops praised the Trump administration’s expansion of conscience exemptions for the HHS contraception mandate, calling the move a “return to common sense.”
Two leading U.S. bishops have publicly endorsed the Climate Solutions Commission Act of 2017, aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide.
Settled in the middle of Rome, Vatican City serves as the Catholic Church’s headquarters and is also the Church’s very own 110-acre sovereign state. And while you are always welcome to enter St. Peter’s Square, that is as far as you are ever going to get.
In a preview of Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview with former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, CBS released a segment in which Bannon is asked a question by Charlie Rose that no one in the media ever asks pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion Democrats.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) blasted President Trump’s decision to end DACA (in six months) as “reprehensible” on Tuesday. In a strongly worded statement that expresses zero compassion for those negatively affected by this unconstitutional amnesty program and
The Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee for Religious Liberty praised the Supreme Court’s Monday ruling in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, calling it a “landmark victory for religious freedom.”
Following Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows much of President Trump’s travel ban to go immediately into effect, the chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration released a statement expressing grave concerns over the ruling.
The Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development said that the American bishops are “examining very closely” the discussion draft of the U.S. Senate’s health care bill but that as it stands the bill is “unacceptable.”
The U.S. Bishops have written to all members of Congress “urging members of the House and Senate to provide a replacement plan” to the Affordable Care Act.
In his statement, USCCB Migration Chairman Bishop Eusebio Elizondo offered Trump his support “for all efforts to work together to promote the common good, especially those to protect the most vulnerable among us.” At the same time, Elizondo offered “a special word to migrant and refugee families living in the United States: be assured of our solidarity and continued accompaniment as you work for a better life.”
In Tuesday’s Presidential elections, Catholics voted for Donald Trump by a greater margin than for any other Republican candidate in the five elections of the new millennium, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
In response to the leaked emails of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, the head of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) has issued a stern statement decrying efforts to interfere in the Church’s self-governance for “short-term political gain.”
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty has blasted the head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) for his recent attacks on religious liberty, calling him “reckless” for labeling religious people as bigots.
In a strongly worded statement, the chairman of the Committee on Migration of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has denounced Thursday’s Supreme Court decision that blocked the Obama administration’s executive action to shield more than 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation, calling it a “huge disappointment.”
Georgetown University’s Lecture Fund has invited the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Cecile Richards, to address students on campus this April. The ever vigilant Cardinal Newman Society reported that Richards will speak at Georgetown in April, and
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is celebrating National Migration Week from January 3-9, urging Catholics throughout the country to support policies that “welcome the stranger among us.”
The plummeting popularity of the Common Core standards has extended to Catholic schools in the United States—about half of which were signed onto the nationalized standards by their bishops despite a push back from many Catholic educators and theologians.
Syrian refugees should be accepted, in part, because they are fleeing “terror,” says a new statement from the head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Migration.
