A leading Catholic immigration advocate has raised questions about whether restrictions in a bipartisan border proposal now before Congress will help the situation or make it worse for migrants trying to enter the U.S.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is "the mother of all mothers -- a loving bridge between worlds and peoples who unifies through her maternal embrace," the U.S. bishops' migration chairman said in a statement issued on the Dec. 12 Marian feast.
For two days, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met in plenary assembly in Baltimore advancing key issues related to liturgy, living out the faith, including in the public square, and retooling the conference to better serve the church's mission.
Father David Bailey, a priest of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, and a member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Native American Advisory Board, recently joined “Practicing Catholic” radio show host Patrick Conley to discuss the incidence of Indigenous women who are missing or found murdered.
"Blessed are the young," said Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States, "for they shall inherit the national debt." Hoover's witty mangling of Matthew 5:5 still gets a laugh today, just as it surely did when he made the wisecrack in 1936.
The experience of the sacrament of penance in the Roman rite will be slightly different this Lent, thanks to approved changes in the English translation set to take effect in a few weeks.
For anyone interested in becoming Catholic, wishing to complete the sacraments or wanting to learn more about what the church teaches, the answer for decades was "join RCIA."
The incoming president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said he is willing to meet with public officials, including President Joe Biden, to discuss public policy issues of concern to the church.
In a Mass Nov. 14 to mark the opening of the 2022 fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles called on his brother bishops to take time for self-examination and to renew their vocation and ministry.
The fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will find the bishops voting on a new president and vice president and how to proceed in disseminating their quadrennial document on Catholic participation in public life.
