U.S. Catholic bishops
The confusing path of the US Catholic bishops
By Phyllis Zagano — November 21, 2022
(RNS) — At their fall plenary meeting, the bishops spent less time on the Gospel than on internal church matters.
RIP Catholic News Service — gone too soon and when we needed you most
By Thomas Reese — May 25, 2022
(RNS) — The US Catholic bishops are killing off Catholic News Service, which is the AP of Catholic news, providing copy to Catholic publications and websites across the country.
After winning on abortion, it’s time for Catholic bishops to switch parties
By Thomas Reese — May 4, 2022
(RNS) — Except for ending abortion, the Republican Party has little to offer the bishops. The bishops got what they wanted out of this alliance; it is time to move on.
Why it’s hard to find a good Catholic in American politics
By Jacob Lupfer — October 25, 2021
(RNS) — We need a new politics that welcomes the coherent, common-good orientation of Catholic social teaching.
Biden signals willingness to dialogue with bishops and other faith leaders
By Thomas Reese — February 17, 2021
(RNS) — Melissa Rogers, restored to the White House faith partnerships office, listens to all sides of a dispute.
Can Joe Biden solve the Little Sisters of the Poor dilemma?
By Thomas Reese — February 8, 2021
(RNS) — Ban Form 700. Then we'll see who wants to solve the Little Sisters' problem.
A Catholic scholar weighs Biden’s future with Vatican and US bishops
By Yonat Shimron — February 8, 2021
(RNS) — The Vatican may be breathing a sigh of relief on Joe Biden's election. But the second Catholic president faces significant headwinds from American bishops, writes Massimo Faggioli in a new book.
2020, a good year for bad religion
By Jacob Lupfer — December 30, 2020
(RNS) — After a year that was a superspreader event for bad religion, American faith must become a public-spirited, prophetic force once again.
Trump or Biden? What’s a Catholic voter to do?
By Thomas Reese — August 27, 2020
(RNS) — In order to be totally in line with Catholic social teachings, you would have to be a pro-life liberal Democrat. These unicorns have a hard time winning elections.
Catholic bishops reprimand Trump as often as they praise him
By Thomas Reese — August 4, 2020
(RNS) — The country's bishops take social justice issues more seriously than the president does, a fact that's often overshadowed in the media by attacks on Biden for his positions on abortion.
American Catholics, meet the Communion service
By Thomas Reese — May 14, 2020
(RNS) — The coronavirus may force American Catholics to experience what liturgical life is like in the Amazon, where there are few priests and many faithful.
Catholic bishops finally tackle the sex abuse cover-up. Now comes the hard part.
By David Gibson — June 13, 2019
BALTIMORE (RNS) — The reforms the Catholic bishops passed this week to deal with the sexual abuse crisis were easy compared with changing the culture of clerical privilege that is at the heart of the abuse crisis.
Five reasons the pope’s clergy sex abuse meeting in Rome will fail
By Thomas Reese — January 17, 2019
(RNS) — Besides a lack of time to prepare and impossible expectations, even Francis' greatest strength, his pastoral sense, is working against him.
Father Roy Moore would be suspended
By Thomas Reese — December 7, 2017
(RNS) — The Republican Party has not learned from the mistakes of the Catholic bishops in dealing with sexual abuse. They are operating out of the same playbook as the bishops did before they wised up and changed their policies.
New Jersey meets its new, and first, Catholic cardinal
By David Gibson — November 7, 2016
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) Cardinal-designate Joseph Tobin spoke of the shocking and 'gut-wrenching' transfer from Indianapolis -- but also showed the new kind of pastor he will be.
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