USCCB Archives

Bishops express sorrow, support after U.S. firefighters die in Australia

Jan 24, 2020

Representatives of the U.S. bishops expressed sorrow after three U.S. firefighters died in an air crash while fighting bushfires in Australia.

By Catholic News Service

Pope Francis ‘has our backs’ on pro-life cause, says archbishop

Jan 24, 2020

Pope Francis “has our backs” in the pro-life cause, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, said to applause in his Jan. 23 homily at the opening Mass of the National Vigil for Life.

By Mark Pattison

Lawsuit charges USCCB misled Catholics about Peter’s Pence collection

Jan 24, 2020

A Dallas law firm and a Rhode Island parishioner alleged in a federal lawsuit that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops misled donors nationwide regarding the purposes of the annual Peter’s Pence collection.

By Dennis Sadowski

USCCB says annual collection shows solidarity with Church in Latin America

Jan 23, 2020

For more than 50 years, the U.S. bishops’ annual Collection for the Church in Latin America has been a sign of solidarity between Catholics in the United States, in Latin America and the Caribbean.

By Catholic News Service

U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman asks Catholics to serve mothers in need

Jan 22, 2020

In marking the “sorrowful anniversary” Jan. 22 of the Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing abortion nationwide, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee said the Catholic Church’s pastoral response to all mothers in need “will soon intensify.”

By Catholic News Service

USCCB brief: ‘Actual innocence’ warrants Florida capital case retrial

Jan 22, 2020

In an amicus brief to a Florida capital murder case, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told the Supreme Court the claims of “actual innocence” of the Florida man sentenced to death for the crime “must be resolved on the merits and cannot be dismissed on any procedural grounds.”

By Mark Pattison