WASHINGTON – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will be voting for chairmen-elect for six standing committees during the 2025 Plenary Assembly in November. Each bishop elected will serve for one year as the chairman-elect of the respective committee before beginning a three-year term at the conclusion of the bishops’ 2026 Plenary Assembly. The…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Hamas attack on Israel two years ago “was inhuman and indefensible,” the Vatican secretary of state said, and Israel’s two-year-long war on Gaza has had “disastrous and inhuman consequences.” “It is unacceptable and unjustifiable to reduce human beings to mere ‘collateral damage’” in Israel’s stated goal of destroying Hamas, said…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The joint celebration of the Jubilee of Migrants and the Jubilee of the Missions is an opportunity to remind all Catholics that the duty to welcome and assist migrants is also part of each person’s obligation to share God’s love, Pope Leo XIV said. “Brothers and sisters, today a new missionary…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Jubilee Year requires making a choice: serving God and justice or money and inequity, Pope Leo XIV said, marking the Jubilee of Migrants and the Jubilee of the Missions. “We pray to be a church that does not serve money or itself, but the kingdom of God and his justice,”…
Reading 1 Baruch 1:15-22 During the Babylonian captivity, the exiles prayed: “Justice is with the Lord, our God; and we today are flushed with shame, we men of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem, that we, with our kings and rulers and priests and prophets, and with our ancestors, have sinned in the Lord’s sight and…
WASHINGTON – In response to inquiries the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has received over the last several days about matters pertaining to decisions made in individual (arch)dioceses, the Conference offered the following clarification from its spokesperson, Chieko Noguchi, executive director of public affairs: “The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is not a governing…