Besides casting votes in the flashier congressional races, Catholic voters will get to speak up on any number of local and regional concerns through local ballot measures.
Bishops
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‘The Catholic Church is always politically nonpartisan’: Arizona bishops warn voters of groups claiming to represent the church
Ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections, Arizona’s Catholic bishops alerted voters to “unapproved political efforts” they said are being carried out by a number of organizations and publications claiming to represent the Catholic Church.
Posted inFaith, News
Making the church more inclusive while staying true to teaching: Vatican releases synod’s synthesis document
“The quality of homilies is almost unanimously reported as a problem.”
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Buffalo Diocese submits to independent oversight in lawsuit over sexual abuse
Under the agreement, filed Oct. 25 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the diocese is required to implement enhanced child protection measures.
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The Vatican and China renew agreement on appointing bishops for third time
Many dioceses are still without bishops or have very elderly bishops, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, but the process is continuing.
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Vatican cardinal tells EWTN: Catholic media must be in communion with pope
Media, especially those calling themselves Catholic, “must strive not to spread hate, but rather to promote a non-hostile communication,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin told employees of EWTN and its affiliated outlets.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
New study of priests shows a distrust of bishops, fears of false sex abuse allegations and widespread burnout
A new study on the well-being of U.S. Catholic priests found that most support a zero-tolerance policy against child sex abuse but do not trust that their bishop would support them in the face of a false allegation.
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Swiss cardinal apologizes for comparing German Synodal Path to Nazi ideology
Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch apologized for offending people and said he never intended to imply that supporters of the German church’s Synodal Path were acting similar to a group of Christian supporters of the Nazis in the 1930s.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The U.S. bishops aren’t the extremists in the abortion debate.
Are there extremists on the fringe of the pro-life movement? Yes. But on the pro-abortion side, extremism is very much in the driver’s seat—and mainstream media protect it through bias and misinformation.
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The U.S. bishops’ president race is wide open. Here’s who’s in the running.
When the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meets this November to elect a new president, it will be the first time in several decades that the race is wide open.