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Abortion named top concern by US bishops’ conference

November 16, 2023

NEW YORK – When it came time for a much-anticipated debate among the American bishops over a voting guide ahead of the 2024 election, the surprise may be that there wasn’t actually any contention. They simply voted to approve the agreed-upon materials in a 225 to 11 vote, with seven abstentions. Forming Consciences for Faithful

Listening to the laity can only help the Church

October 10, 2022

The American Church has spoken. To put it another way, the local and diocesan responses in the US to the pope’s call for a global synod have been brought together and the findings published as a synthesis which will be submitted to the final stages of the synodal process. No fewer than 700,000 of the 66.8

USCCB report: Are American Catholics as divided as they seem?

September 29, 2022

Has synodal report accurately captured the state of US Catholicism? At face value, a new report on the state of American Catholics makes for grim reading, pointing to growing division and unhappiness. According to the report by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Catholics in the US are divided over everything from the

2022: A tale of two Churches

July 08, 2022

While the decline of Christianity across the Western world, and especially in Europe, is well-documented, this does not give an entirely accurate picture of what is really going on. While Catholic church attendance is in sharp decline across western Europe, especially France, Germany and Spain, it is rising in the east. Meanwhile, the collapse of

USCCB pro-life chairman urges Biden to act like the ‘devout Catholic’ he says he is

October 14, 2021

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 12, 2021 / 10:53 am The U.S. Catholic bishops’ pro-life chairman is expressing disappointment with President Biden as his administration reverses a Trump-era rule that restricted funding over abortion. “It’s really sad,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, who heads the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life

Mending a fractured American Church

July 30, 2021

The US Bishops’ Conference is to issue a teaching document “on the beauty and power of the Eucharist”. It is overdue. In 2019, a Pew survey suggested that barely a third of US Catholics believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. This is a scandal, evidence of a failure of grassroots catechisis,

Communion Kerfuffle a Pageant of Idiocy

June 28, 2021

Maybe the bishops should make an example of the President of the United States. Maybe they ought to name him and shame him as the Dissenter-in-Chief, the bully champion of his political party’s mad promotion of so-called “abortion rights” and insane addiction to the big cheques of the abortion interest. Perhaps they ought to excommunicate the lot of ’em. Maybe. It doesn't matter. They aren’t going to.

Not Everyone Should Receive: What the Communion Debate’s Really About

June 23, 2021

I would not have made the decision that the American Catholic bishops just made. They voted by a three-to-one majority to authorize the drafting of a statement on “on the meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church.” It has been reported as having a single, simple political motivation, to bar pro-choice politicians