Topic: United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops

Gay marriage will be among the issues discussed by U.S. bishops at their fall assembly in BaltimoreGay marriage will be among the issues discussed by U.S. bishops at their fall assembly in Baltimore. The November 14 – 16 meeting of the U.S. ...

Catholic paper retracts column on devil and gays

CONWAY, Massachusetts (Reuters) - The oldest Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States has retracted an opinion column that said the devil may cause homosexual attraction after the essay was condemned by gay rights groups.The 184-year-old weekly newspaper, the Boston Pilot, run ...
in a surprise upset, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan is the new head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) -- the first time in decades that the group's sitting vice president, in this case Bishop Gerald Kincanas of Arizona, won't ...
"The church does not have to change its teachings to reach young people, but we must deliver it to them in a new way," Bishop Ronald Herzog told the general assembly meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Baltimore."If ...

go forth and blog

That's just one of the messages to emerge from the fall gathering of the USCCB in Baltimore: Roman Catholic bishops in the United States should go forth and blog, tweet and preach on the "new digital continent" of social media, a church ...
Head of Catholic bishops' conference defends opposition to health care overhaul over abortionThe outgoing president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops used his final speech to defend the bishops' opposition to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.Chicago Cardinal Francis George said ...
2010 Religion News Service (RNS) Visit a Roman Catholic and an Eastern Orthodox liturgy, and the differences are stark: Members could imagine a reunited church with a new calendar and old prayers, but "the central problem is the role of the pope," ...

'Pope week' on Facebook

Think you know a thing or two about Pope Benedict XVI? Then log onto Facebook next week and you could be a winner.OK, maybe it's not of a trip to the Vatican. But you could win a copy of a new book ...
The Roman Catholic Church considers marriage one of its seven sacraments. Foundational to Catholic theology and a sign of God's presence, marriage carries great spiritual responsibilities. Covenant When a couple marries in the Roman Catholic Church, Catholic theology teaches that they enter ...
So now we know: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops cares more about its authority than being right. That's the clear import of a fine piece of reporting by NCR's John Allen on the split between the USCCB and the Catholic ...
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