USCCB General Assembly Archives

Bishops’ actions at spring meeting called a ‘work in progress’

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 15, 2019

The gathering of U.S. bishops June 11-13 in Baltimore was anything but business as usual.

Lay groups cautious about bishops’ actions to boost accountability

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 14, 2019

Representatives of lay organizations expressed caution over the steps taken by U.S. bishops to boost accountability and transparency in dealing with clergy sexual abuse, saying future actions by the bishops will determine how successful the initiatives ultimately will be.

Bishops vote to revise U.S. catechism’s capital punishment section

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 14, 2019

The U.S. bishops voted June 13 to revise what the U.S. Church teaches its adult members about the death penalty in a passage on the issue in the U.S. Catechism for Adults.

USCCB president, other bishops, met with survivors of clergy sexual abuse

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 13, 2019

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, along with Bishop Timothy L. Doherty of Lafayette, chairman of the bishops’ Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People, and Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond, Virginia, met with three survivors of clergy sexual abuse late June 12.

Catholic Church should focus on getting ‘nones’ back, Bishop Barron says

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 13, 2019

Although the U.S. bishops’ spring assembly in Baltimore was mostly devoted to responding to the sexual abuse crisis in the Church, the bishops also considered something described as the second-most important issue currently facing U.S. Church leaders: How to get religiously unaffiliated, or “nones,” particularly young people, back to the Catholic Church.

Bishops affirm diocese’s effort for Michigan stigmatist’s sainthood cause

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 13, 2019

The U.S. bishops, after being consulted about the sainthood cause of a man who, except for service in World War II, spent his life in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, gave vocal assent June 12 for the Diocese of Marquette to continue to pursue the cause.