USCCB fall assembly Archives

Missouri bishop calls for greater lay role in Church, including abuse probes

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Nov 19, 2018

Laypeople need to help the U.S. bishops get out from under the clerical sex abuse scandal that is plaguing the Church, said Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City in a message to Catholics of his diocese posted Nov. 16 on the diocesan website.

Comments at listening sessions showed need for racism pastoral

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Nov 19, 2018

During discussion at their Baltimore assembly on the U.S. bishops’ new pastoral letter, “The Enduring Call to Love: A Pastoral Letter Against Racism,” Bishop Robert J. Baker of Birmingham, Alabama, said the document’s message was needed, as the civil rights movement “began 60 years ago and we’re still working on achieving the goals in this document.”

Cupich denies he and Wuerl hatched rival plan before Baltimore

Church in the US, Vatican
Nov 19, 2018

Concerning a report that he and Cardinal Donald Wuerl worked out an alternative plan on sex abuse reform ahead of the recent US bishops meeting, Cardinal Blase Cupich told Crux: “At no time prior to the Baltimore meeting did the two of us collaborate in developing, nor even talk about, an alternative plan.”

U.S. bishops’ meeting has echoes, and differences, from 2002 gathering

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Nov 18, 2018

Like the 2002 meeting, the bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore Nov. 12-14 came on the heels of a clergy abuse scandal.

In Facebook Live event, U.S. bishops field range of questions from public

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Nov 18, 2018

Three U.S. bishops answered questions from the public through a Facebook Live session at the conclusion of the second full day of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall general assembly in Baltimore.