“This Advent, the Lord comes to love us even though we don’t deserve it. Let us repent and embrace his gift,” the committee chairmen said in a Dec. 7 statement.
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Some Americans are skeptical about taking a Covid vaccine. Could religious leaders convince them?
Public health experts said that faith leaders can leverage the trust of their congregations when it comes to encouraging the use of vaccines.
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Vatican: Working for Christian unity is not optional for bishops
The ministry of a Catholic bishop must reflect the Catholic Church’s commitment to Christian unity and must give ecumenical engagement the same kind of attention as work for justice and peace, said a new Vatican document.
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Pope Francis names new bishop to Buffalo diocese facing hundreds of sex abuse lawsuits
The Buffalo diocese sought bankruptcy protection in February, citing hundreds of lawsuits filed against it since August 2019 over its handling of sexual abuse allegations.
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Can the Catholic Church find a better way to choose bishops?
The Vatican’s report on Theodore McCarrick is an indictment of institutional knowledge and decision-making in the Catholic Church.
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U.S. bishops’ internal memo: Catholics can take Covid-19 vaccines
An internal memo corrects “some confusion in the media regarding the moral permissibility of using the vaccines.” But at least two bishops have cast doubt on the moral permissibility of the vaccines.
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Bishop Flores evangelizes on Twitter. Now he is in charge of doctrine for the U.S. bishops.
The Most Rev. Daniel Flores, Bishop of Brownsville, Tex., since December 2009, was elected head of the Committee on Doctrine of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Nov. 16.
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The U.S. bishops need a better public response to the McCarrick Report
The bishops have failed to find a public way to communicate to American Catholics that they are taking this report seriously and are ready to make changes in response to it.
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U.S. bishops express concern over a having a Catholic president who is pro-choice
The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference said that the election of Joe Biden, who speaks regularly about his Catholic faith, “presents certain opportunities but also certain challenges.”
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I forgave my abuser. But I will never forget his abuse.
Forgiveness must not mean perpetuating secrecy and avoiding accountability. It means owning up to the truth.