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Bishop Chairmen Call for Better Police Formation and Accountability

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development...

U.S. Bishops’ Religious Liberty Chairman Announces Religious Freedom Week from June 22-29, 2020

Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami, the acting chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee for Religious Liberty has encouraged Catholics to...

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U.S. Bishops’ President Appoints Archbishop Thomas Wenski as Acting Chairman of the Committee for Religious Liberty

Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has appointed Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami to serve as...

U.S. Bishops’ Migration Chairman on the 20th Anniversary of World Refugee Day

Currently, the world faces the biggest forced migration crisis since World War II, with more than 70 million people forcibly displaced, which includes 25 million refugees...

U.S. and European Bishops Offer Prayers for U.S. - Russia Arms Control Meeting

An issued a joint statement as senior officials from the United States and Russia are scheduled to meet in Vienna, Austria on June 22 to discuss nuclear arms control and...

Pope Francis Names Father Michel Mulloy of Diocese of Rapid City as Bishop of Duluth

Pope Francis has appointed Father Michel Mulloy, a priest of the Diocese of Rapid City and current Diocesan Administrator of the Diocese of Rapid City as the Bishop of...

USCCB President and Migration Committee Welcome Supreme Court Decision on DACA and Urge President to Uphold the Program

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion preventing the Trump Administration from terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program

Bishop Chairmen Applaud HHS Bringing Health Care Nondiscrimination Regulations into Alignment with Federal Law

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, Archbishop Paul S...

World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests Encourages Priests to Reflect on Their Vocation

The World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests will be celebrated by the universal Church on June 19, 2020.

Pope Francis Accepts Resignation of Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis; Names Bishop Mitchell Rozanski of Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts as Successor

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson, 75, from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and has appointed Bishop...