A new book of prayers for laypeople ministering to the sick could be on its way
A priest administers the Anointing of the Sick. / Kristina Ismulyani/Shutterstock. St. Louis, Mo., Nov 13, 2022 / 10:00 am (CNA). The bishops of the United States are set to vote this week to create a...
View ArticleNational prayer vigil for life to continue post-Roe
Mass celebrated inside the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. CNA file photo / null Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 14, 2022 / 13:00 pm (CNA). The U.S. Conference of...
View ArticleNew USCCB president Broglio: I’d be happy to meet with Biden
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the newly elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, meets with reporters in Baltimore on Nov. 15, 2022. / Joe Bukuras/CNA Baltimore, Md., Nov...
View ArticleFULL TEXT: Archbishop Gomez calls for evangelizing response to secular age
Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, California. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA. Baltimore, Md., Nov 16, 2022 / 12:45 pm (CNA). Editor's note: Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, the outgoing president of...
View ArticleWhat the USCCB elections suggest about the next three years
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has elected a host of new leadership positions this week. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese of the Military Services has been elected president....
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Pope Francis: ‘Jesus did not create bishops’ conferences’
Pope Francis meets with the United States bishops at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2015. / L'Osservatore Romano. Rome Newsroom, Nov 28, 2022 / 08:01 am (CNA). Pope Francis has...
View ArticleCatholic bishops condemn Biden administration’s new policy on abortion pills
null / ivanko80/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Jan 9, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). The U.S. Catholic bishops are challenging the Biden administration after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
View ArticleU.S. Catholic bishops observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech during the Aug 28 1963 march on Washington DC. / null Washington,...
View ArticleU.S. bishops: FBI document targeting Catholics is ‘religious profiling’
Cardinal Timothy Dolan. / Stephen Driscoll/CNA Boston, Mass., Feb 17, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) responded Thursday to a leaked document from the...
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Catholics, are you going to confession? Watch for these changes
null / L'Osservatore Romano. Denver, Colo., Feb 23, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Lent is supposed to be a time of penance in the Catholic Church. This year, it’s a time when priests in the confessional will...
View ArticleBishops to Biden administration: Keep in place federal rules to protect...
null / Credit: NaruFoto/Shutterstock Denver, Colo., Mar 28, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA). Religious student groups on many college and university campuses will lose key federal protections for their ability...
View ArticleFranciscan friar’s attack on bishops and doctrine is a theological disaster
Franciscan Friar Daniel P. Horan, in a response to the USCCB’s March 20th document “Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to the Technological Manipulation of the Human Body,” refers to the Note as a...
View ArticleWhat is Title 42, why are the bishops against it, and what will happen next?
Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States stand in line to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the early morning hours after crossing into Arizona from Mexico on May 10, 2023, in Yuma,...
View ArticleCatholic bishops to FDA: Don’t make ‘minipill’ contraceptive over-the-counter
null / SiljeAO/Shutterstock Denver, Colo., May 16, 2023 / 14:10 pm (CNA). Federal regulators with the Food and Drug Administration should reject proposed over-the-counter use of the progestin-only...
View Article‘We have much to celebrate’: USCCB pro-life chair releases Dobbs anniversary...
Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall plenary assembly in Baltimore, Nov. 16, 2022. / Katie Yoder/CNA CNA Newsroom, Jun 6, 2023 /...
View ArticleU.S. bishops to discuss health care, eucharistic revival, and more at spring...
The U.S. bishops met in Baltimore for their annual fall general assembly on Nov. 14-17, 2022. / Credit: Katie Yoder/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 13, 2023 / 12:10 pm (CNA). The U.S. Conference of...
View ArticleNew study on religious liberty reveals wide discrepancy among States
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, at their Spring Plenary Assembly last week in Baltimore, declared this week “Religious Freedom Week.” Beginning June 22, the feast of St. Thomas More and St....
View ArticleTwo areas of gender activism requiring clarity, forthrightness from bishops
At their June 2023 gathering, the United States bishops voted to revisit a section of Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, the latest edition of which was published in...
View ArticleU.S. bishops rebuke group of Catholic Democrats vowing to support abortion
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the newly elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, meets with reporters in Baltimore on Nov. 15, 2022. / Joe Bukuras/CNA Denver, Colo., Jun...
View ArticleU.S. bishops praise Supreme Court’s unanimous Groff v. DeJoy religious...
Former U.S. postal worker Gerald Groff believes his religious freedom was violated when heh was reprimanded for refusing to work on Sundays. / First Liberty Institute Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun...
View ArticleU.S. bishops praise new immigrant family reunification program
Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States wait as they are processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the early morning hours after crossing into Arizona from Mexico on May 10, 2023 in Yuma,...
View ArticleLawmakers grill FBI chief on anti-Catholic memo
null / Credit: Dzelat/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Jul 13, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday pressed FBI director Chris Wray on a leaked memo...
View ArticleComplex Catholic hospital mergers pose ethics challenge for U.S. bishops
Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. / Credit: Michael Vi/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 13, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked its...
View ArticleBishops urge Congress to pass bill granting asylum to Afghans who helped U.S....
Afghan refugees in Kabul, Afghanistan, after the collapse of the country in August 2021. / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 20, 2023 / 10:45 am (CNA). Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the U.S....
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U.S. bishops appeal to leaders to do more to ensure food security around the...
A family sits in a tent at camp for refugees at Kenya's border town with Ethiopia, Moyale, about 484 miles north of capital Nairobi, on March 17, 2018 after fleeing Ethiopia. / Brian Ongoro/AFP via...
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