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FaithNews
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
The proposed statement, "Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love -- A Pastoral Letter Against Racism," will be considered for approval during the bishops' Nov. 12-14 fall general meeting in Baltimore.
FaithNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
The firestorm surrounding the clergy sex abuse crisis and the way some bishops handled allegations of abuse against priests will be an important part of the agenda of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' fall general assembly.
 Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, then nuncio to the United States, and then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, are seen in a combination photo during the beatification Mass of Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, N.J., Oct. 4, 2014. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In this third letter Archbishop Viganò no longer insists that the restrictions that he claimed Benedict XVI had imposed on Archbishop McCarrick can be understood as “sanctions.”
FaithEditorials
The Editors
For U.S. Catholics, every synod is also a valuable reminder—and corrective—that it is not all about us.
A Mass is celebrated at Star of the Sea Catholic Church in San Francisco. (iStock/yhelfman)
FaithDispatches
Robert David Sullivan

Compared with other Christians in the United States, Catholics are more likely to attend church to please other family members—and are significantly less likely to go because they “find the sermons valuable.” Those were among the findings of a Pew Research Center poll released in August. Pew interviewed 4,729 U.S. adults, including 844 self-identified Catholics, last December to find out why they regularly attended church or stayed away.

Politics & SocietyDispatches
Brandon Sanchez
The night—at times weighed down by sobering reminders of abuse—was overlaid with levity.