On this deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican,” producer Maggi Van Dorn and host Colleen Dulle dig into the history of the U.S. bishops’ engagement with political issues and give some background on today’s “Communion wars.”
Bishops
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Are racial justice movements straying from Catholic tradition — or are Catholic leaders out of touch?
Archbishop José Gomez’s speech on social justice movements displays a lack of understanding of Black Catholics and other groups too often at the margin of the church.
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Cardinal Cupich: Pope Francis’ Latin Mass reforms are necessary to secure Vatican II’s legacy
Pope Francis wants all Catholics to recognize that Vatican II and its reforms are not only authentic actions of the Holy Spirit but also are in continuity with the tradition of the church.
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Interview: Archbishop Cordileone on Biden, Pelosi, abortion and Pope Francis
Gloria Purvis speaks with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco about some of the most contested issues in the Catholic Church today.
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Senator Dick Durbin on being denied Communion over abortion stance: ‘I am careful when I go to a church’
For the last 17 years, Senator Durbin has been unable to receive Communion in his home diocese in Springfield, Ill.
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Archbishop Gomez: The church must confront ‘woke’ social justice movements that aim to ‘cancel’ Christian beliefs
The Catholic Church must proclaim Jesus Christ “boldly” in the face of new secular movements that promote “social justice,” and “wokeness” as the answer to all of society’s ills, Archbishop José H. Gomez said.
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Denying Communion to Joe Biden won’t bring people back to Mass. The U.S. bishops likely know this.
Denying Communion to Joe Biden will not get Catholics back in the pews — or bring together a church whose members are sometimes more likely to bend the knee to an elephant or donkey than to the eucharistic Lord.
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Bishops: Build Back Better bill would help many but abortion funding is ‘completely unacceptable’
The proposed Build Back Better Act has much-needed provisions “uplifting the common good,” but unacceptably “expands taxpayer funding of abortion,” the chairmen of six U.S.C.C.B. committees said.
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If we’d listened to Cardinal Bernardin, the Catholic Church would not be so divided today
On this 25th anniversary of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s death, we can look back to him for guidance as we try to find a way out of the hostility toward dialogue we have been trapped in since the 1990s.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Leaked draft of bishops’ document on Communion lacks explicit reference to pro-choice politicians
A draft document about the Eucharist being prepared by a group of U.S. bishops makes only oblique references to Catholic politicians who disagree with church teaching.