The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities USA are among more than 200 non-governmental organizations named in a congressional probe for aiding immigrants its leaders call "inadmissible aliens" during former President Joe Biden's administration.
Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, "will long be remembered for his outreach to those on the margins of the Church and of society," Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement shared in the first hours after the pope's death.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children's services and refugee support after its longstanding partnerships with the federal government in those areas became "untenable."
The U.S. bishops' Feb. 18 lawsuit against the federal government for abrupt and sweeping changes to refugee resettlement funding, and the bishops' Feb. 20 admonition of President Donald Trump's executive order aiming to expand access to in vitro fertilization underscore the ongoing friction between the nation's Catholic leaders and its 47th president in his first month since reassuming office.
The negotiations on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the first release of hostages to begin Jan. 19 are seen as an "encouraging sign of peace," said Bishop A. Elias Zaidan of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace.
Since President-elect Donald Trump's Nov. 5 victory, most Americans expect him to tackle the issue of immigration within the first 100 days of reoccupying the Oval Office.
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is calling for prayer and unity, following the nation's general election that saw Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump defeat Democratic nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris to win another term as president.
Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is a nominee for treasurer-elect of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and for chairman-elect of the budget and finance committee.
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for "fervent prayer" to end the violence in the Holy Land, as the Israel-Hamas war nears its first year while threatening to expand into a wider regional conflict.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops invites the faithful to join in a novena for mental health as part of the second year of the USCCB's ongoing National Catholic Mental Health Campaign.
Retired FBI official James Bogner was recently named chair of the National Review Board, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' consultative safe environment body established in 2002 under the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People," also known as the Dallas Charter.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Jan. 31 grilled the CEOs of major social media companies on how they respond to child sexual exploitation on their platforms.
