On the first day of the bishops’ recent meeting in Baltimore, Bishop Daniel Thomas — who was elected last fall to lead their Committee on Pro-Life Activities and began his three-year term on Nov. 13 — sat down with RNS for an interview.
The polarization of the culture has seeped into the church, but many of the bishops here in Baltimore are looking for ways to keep the cancer from spreading, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
After a Nov. 13 USCCB report on immigration from El Paso’s Bishop Mark Seitz, some prelates said Donald Trump's presidential campaign caused damage because of its "incredible negative rhetoric" against immigrants.
Sundays spent in nature and a return of year-round meatless Fridays were a few of the ideas floated Nov. 13 at the U.S. bishops' meeting as ways to mark the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical on ecology.
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development recently approved 93 grants totaling more than $2 million to dozens of organizations around the U.S. — a fraction of what the bishops' program has awarded in previous years.
Nurses rallied outside the fall meeting of the U.S. bishops' conference Nov. 12 in Baltimore, urging bishops to do something about workers' pay and the level of care patients receive at Catholic hospital chain Ascension.
The U.S. Catholic bishops voted Nov. 12 at their fall meeting to support the local advancement of the sainthood causes of two women: Benedictine Sister Annella Zervas and Gertrude Agnes Barber, a laywoman. The two women died 74 years apart — Annella in 1926 after suffering horribly from a rare skin condition, and Barber in 2000, after becoming a national leader and advocate in her field. Postulators for both causes are currently gathering information locally about the two women with plans to prepare a "positio" for the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican.
The elections at this year's U.S. bishops' conference meeting constituted a rejection of some of the more arch-conservative candidates in favor of more centrist, or at least center-right, bishops.
Speaking Nov. 12 in his capacity as president of the U.S. bishops' conference at the bishops' fall plenary assembly, Archbishop Timothy Broglio said the Catholic Church in the U.S. will continue to stand by migrants who cross the border without legal documents.
The agenda for the Nov. 11-14 plenary session of the U.S. bishops does not call for a public discussion of the Nov. 5 election. But observers expect that the political fallout will hang over the proceedings.
Sometime this morning at the U.S. bishops' assembly, Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese of the Military Services will give his address as president of the conference. It is scary to think what he will say.
When U.S. bishops meet, their first objective must be unity, writes Michael Sean Winters. "It will require candor, synodality, and the selection of committee chairs who are good pastors," he writes.
