US bishops close National Eucharistic Congress with challenge to “change our society”

Indianapolis, US RNS As they sent more than 50,000 Catholics who attended the National Eucharistic Congress on their way, the bishops who organised the five-day event that ended Sunday may have sensed they were preaching to the proverbial choir. But that didn’t mean they wanted the faithful to be comfortable. “This great revival will have […]
US Catholics: Catholics pray for unity as the National Eucharistic Congress underway

ALEJA HERTZLER-MCCAIN, of Religion News Service, reports from the mass gathering of Catholics in Indianapolis…
“Which parts of the world do we stop covering?”: Former leaders alarmed by USCCB layoffs ask

ALEJA HERTZLER-MCCAIN, of Religion News Service, reports on the impacts of major layoffs in one department of the US Catholic Bishops’ Conference…
US Catholic bishops’ conference announces major layoffs to department focused on social justice

United States RNS Less than two weeks after many US bishops made a strong show of support for the conference’s domestic anti-poverty initiative, staff members from that initiative and others were laid off on Monday as part of a restructuring of the wing of the conference that supports Catholic social teaching. Chieko Noguchi, the spokesperson […]
Top US bishop worries Catholic border services for migrants might be imperiled by government action

Louisville, Kentucky, US AP Government officials would be infringing on religious freedom if they were to restrict the Catholic Church’s work serving migrants along the US-Mexico border, says a top US bishop. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressed the issue this week while in Louisville, Kentucky, for a USCCB […]
US Catholic bishops apologise to Native Americans for abuses, promise new outreach

Reuters US Catholic bishops offered an apology to Native Americans on Friday for the church’s role in inflicting trauma on their communities and adopted new guidelines for ministering to Indigenous Catholics. The new policies, approved by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, call on church leaders to set up listening sessions with local Native leaders, […]
Ruing past boarding-school abuses, US Catholic bishops consider new outreach to Native Americans

Louisville, Kentucky, US AP US bishops want to assure Native Catholics that they don’t need to feel torn between their Native identity and their Catholic one. “You do not have to be one or the other. You are both. Your cultural embodiment of the faith is a gift to the Church,” according to a draft […]
Sight-Seeing: Three Catholic bishops and a nun walk into the White House. Here’s why it’s no joke.

US Catholic Archbishop JOHN C WESTER, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says we commit grave harm against ourselves through environmental destruction and we go against God’s plan for us…
Fired US Catholic prelate appears near – but not at – bishops gathering

Baltimore, US RNS A Texas bishop recently removed from his post by Pope Francis made an appearance near the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual gathering this week but avoided entering the building, telling reporters on Wednesday that he was respecting a request from the Vatican’s ambassador to the United States. Until Saturday, 11th November, […]
US Catholic bishops meet; leaders call for unity and peace amid internal strife and global conflict

Baltimore, US AP Catholic leaders called for peace in a war-torn world and unity amid strife within their own clerical ranks on Tuesday, as US bishops gathered in Baltimore for their annual fall meeting. The meeting came soon after two actions by Pope Francis that illustrated the divisive challenges facing the Catholic Church – removing […]