USCCB fall assembly Archives

Bishops require mail balloting to OK assessment increase for 2021

Jan 12, 2020

The U.S. bishops, nearly two months after the issue was presented to them at their fall general meeting in Baltimore, approved a 3% increase in their diocesan assessment for 2021.

By Mark Pattison

Bishops take new actions to hold themselves accountable for abuse in 2019

Dec 6, 2019

The clergy sexual abuse crisis continued to command a large amount of attention and action from the U.S. bishops throughout 2019.

By Catholic News Service

Bishops hear follow-up Encuentro report, OK writing new pastoral plan

Nov 17, 2019

The U.S. bishops, aware of the growing numbers of Catholics in the country who are of Hispanic origin, voted to write a new pastoral plan for Latino Catholics that would be produced sometime between 2021 and 2024.

By Mark Pattison

Catholic Charities program strives to ease chronic homelessness

Nov 17, 2019

An experimental program to address chronic homelessness is guiding people into permanent housing while saving millions of dollars in health care costs, the president of Catholic Charities USA told the U.S. bishops.

By Dennis Sadowski

Pastoral against racism is starting conversations, healing, bishops told

Nov 14, 2019

One year after the U.S. bishops approved their pastoral letter against racism, the document is hardly just sitting on a shelf but is the basis for listening sessions in dioceses around the country and is an educational tool for individuals, schools and parishes, the bishops were told Nov. 13.

By Carol Zimmermann

Bishops hear that third-party reporting system may start in February

Nov 13, 2019

A third-party reporting system to field sexual misconduct allegations against bishops could be in place by the end of February, an official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told the bishops during their fall general assembly in Baltimore.

By Dennis Sadowski