At their June assembly, when the U.S. bishops debated a proposal to draft a statement on the Eucharist, some of the bishops asked whether it would address denying Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion. The ...
Writer David Mills addresses the recent meeting between Pope Francis and President Joe Biden: “Many, many American Catholics got very upset with Pope Francis for not publicly criticizing President Joe Biden when they met at ...
President Joe Biden will nominate Catholic lawyer Joseph Donnelly of Indiana, a former member of the U.S. House and Senate, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. The White House announced Biden's pick for ...
Pope Francis met privately at the Vatican Oct. 9 with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was in Rome to speak at a meeting of legislators from around the world in preparation for the U.N. ...
The debate about denying Communion to politicians who support abortion must be handled in a pastoral way, not by public condemnations that seek to "excommunicate" Catholics who are not in line with church teaching, Pope ...
No one can claim "to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it," said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco. "The right to ...
A proposed document to examine the "meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church" received a thorough airing during the second day of U.S. bishops' spring general assembly. For more than two hours June ...
On the agenda for this week’s assembly of U.S. bishops is a discussion about how the Church should address “Eucharistic coherence.” Central to this discussion is how the bishops can help the faithful foster a ...
In a new analysis, Russell Shaw looks ahead to the upcoming general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, during which the bishops are set to discuss a document on “Eucharistic coherence” that sprung ...
After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the reception of Communion, the ...
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