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[Catholic Caucus] Signatories on letter opposing USCCB vote on ‘Eucharistic coherence’ include 5 cardinals, 6 archbishops (and 57 bishops)The signers of a May 13 letter which pressed the U.S. bishops’ conference to suspend its conversation on “Eucharistic coherence” include 47 diocesan bishops, five of whom are cardinals, along with 21 auxiliary bishops. Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington. CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain.The letter, sent May 13 to bishops’ conference president Archbishop Jose Gomez, urged that “all Conference wide discussion and committee work on the topic of Eucharistic worthiness and other issues raised by the Holy See be postponed until the...

At urging of U.S. bishops, Catholic leaders to meet on immigrationSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will host an emergency meeting with prelates from Central America as well as Vatican representatives June 1 and 2 in Chicago to set forth a path for the U.S. church’s response to immigration.The meeting comes as parts of Latin America have been hard hit economically by the COVID-19 pandemic, changing climate patterns and emerging political strife.The meeting will include representatives from the Vatican’s Migrants and Refugees Section, bishops from Central America and Mexico, as well as U.S. Cardinals...

USCCB has 'nothing in the works' on Biden and CommunionRecent reports that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops may at their spring general assembly press pro-abortion Catholic politicians not to receive Communion are unfounded, and at best ignorant of ecclesial structure, a source close to the conference has told CNA.A source close to the USCCB told CNA April 29 that they believe such reports from the AP and the Washington Post are either “just totally ignorant of the Church's structure,” or meant “to pressure the bishops into silence” regarding the Equality Act.The Equality Act would amend federal civil rights law...

U.S. Bishop Chairmen Express Support for Commitments at Leaders Summit on ClimateWASHINGTON – President Joe Biden convened the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22-23, which included a video message by Pope Francis. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City and Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, respective chairmen of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committees on Domestic Justice and Human Development and International Justice and Peace, have released the following statement in support of the Holy Father:“Pope Francis addressed a virtual gathering of over 40 leaders from the highest levels of world government at the White...

[Catholic Caucus] US bishops to vote on plan for Eucharist and pro-choice Catholic politiciansThe U.S. bishops’ conference could be given a vote this June on whether to draft and publish a document addressing the question of administering the Eucharist to pro-choice Catholic politicians. The document could be finalized and approved as early as November, sources tell The Pillar. Credit: Lawrence OP via flickr. CC BY SA 2.0ShareThe USCCB’s administrative committee discussed on Tuesday a path forward for a proposed document on “Eucharistic coherence,” several sources within the bishops’ conference told The Pillar. A plan to develop the statement had the...

Report claims US bishops’ anti-poverty arm lied about partisan support for Biden'This egregious breach of trust,' said Michael Hichborn, president of the Lepanto Institute, 'with the bishops and the faithful MUST be addressed in full detail by the CCHD.'WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2020 (Lepanto Institute) — Responding to an internal memo circulated among the Catholic bishops of the United States, the Lepanto Institute published a highly detailed video report exposing “bold lies” and “wild inaccuracies” contained in the memo.In October, the Lepanto Institute published a report showing that a network of organizations receiving funds from the Catholic Campaign for Human...

Solemn Dedication of Biden Catholic High SchoolApril 15, 2021Anywhere, USA — President Harris will speak at the dedication of Joseph R. Biden Catholic High School on May 1, according to a statement by the Catholic Archdiocese of Anywhere and the high school’s board of trustees.“We are deeply honored that the president will speak at this ceremony as her first public appearance after the thirty days of national mourning following the untimely passing of our beloved Catholic leader, President Biden,” the statement said.Biden Catholic is the new name of the institution formerly known as St. Peter Damian High School. On February...

Biden says California AG who tried to force pro-life centers to promote abortion would be his HHS chiefDemocrat Attorney General Xavier Becerra went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to force pro-life pregnancy centers to promote abortion. He ultimately lost.December 7, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In the latest indication of a possible Biden administration’s hard-left direction, former Vice President Joe Biden has tapped California’s extremely pro-abortion Democrat Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as his Secretary of Health and Human Services, should he take control of the White House.Via his buildbackbetter.gov “transition” website, Biden announced Becerra’s selection...

Detroit archbishop to lead national Catholic group on Biden, abortionDETROIT — The head of the Catholic Church in Detroit has been chosen to lead a new national group that seeks to guide how Catholics should respond to President-elect Joe Biden and the contentious issue of abortion.Archbishop Allen Vigneron, who leads the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit, was named this week the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), on the last day of their annual fall meeting.Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, who named Vigneron, struck a conservative tone in his remarks in emphasizing abortion and by saying...

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, D.C., affirmed he will not deny giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion former Vice President Joe Biden, saying he hopes for a “conversational relationship.” Speaking to America Magazine, Gregory, who is currently in Rome to be made a cardinal on Saturday, expressed his support for Biden’s wish to receive Holy Communion, despite being an ardent supporter of abortion. Referring to his relationship with Biden, the archbishop said, “I hope it’s a real dialogue, because I think that’s the mantra of Pope Francis — that we should be a...

Biden’s Catholic Enablers They are already moving into action for him against such critics as the archbishop of Los Angeles.Joe Biden is preparing a raft of executive orders to advance his anti-Catholic agenda. Numbered among his transition team are opponents of religious freedom, such as Chai Feldblum, an Obama-era secularist commissar, and Barbara McQuade, who, as the New York Post put it, “wanted to sink Amy Coney Barrett over Catholic faith.” But even as the outline of Biden’s anti-Catholic plans takes shape, he is receiving a defense from such “Catholic” publications as America and National Catholic Reporter.A leading columnist for...

Catholic Group Slams Bishops for Letting Joe Biden “Spit in the Face of Christ” by Supporting AbortionA Catholic pro-life group is furious with the nation’s Catholic bishops for issuing a statement claiming abortion activists Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won the presidential election and for letting Biden “spit in the face of Christ” with his radical support of unlimited abortions.American Life League, a Catholic pro-life organization, slammed the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops after they congratulated Biden and Harris. Archbishop José H. Gomez, president of the USCCB, released a statement saying Biden was the winner despite the election...

Asian Catholic bishops welcome Biden's victory in US elections The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) welcomed the election of Joe Biden as president of the United States of America. "We warmly send our prayerful wishes and congratulations to the people of America and the President-Elect Joe Biden," read a statement signed by Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, FABC president. The prelates noted that with the election of Biden the United States "enters into a new phase in their glorious history, affirming democracy and universal good." "President-Elect Joe Biden comes from a long tradition of Catholic faith-based life. His concern for...

The Abortion President -- and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomes him  From the official Biden website: The Affordable Care Act made historic progress ensuring access to free preventive care, including contraception. The Biden Plan will build on that progress. Vice President Biden supports repealing the Hyde Amendment because health care is a right that should not be dependent on one’s zip code or income.  And, the public option will cover contraception and a woman’s constitutional right under Roe v. Wade.  Biden will also:   Stop state laws violating Roe v. Wade. Biden will work to codify...

Archbishop Viganò slams US Bishops conference for claiming Biden is second ‘Catholic’ President His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, has sent the following statement to LifeSiteNews for publication. The world in which we find ourselves living is, to use an expression from the Gospel, “in se divisum” (Mt 12:25). This division, it seems to me, consists of a split between reality and fiction: objective reality on one side, and the fiction of the media on the other. This certainly applies to the pandemic, which has been used as a tool of social engineering that is instrumental to the Great Reset,...

The Anti-Catholic Presidency to Come It was brought to Catholics by their own bishops. Joe Biden’s campaign to con Catholics, often with the help of their own bishops, paid off. He appears to have scooped up at least half of Catholic voters. In the crucial Rust Belt states, he fared far better with them than Hillary Clinton did. “It turns out that while Trump stays on par (or better) with the Catholic vote nationwide, the GOP’s share of the Catholic vote has been slowly dropping wherever Catholics are more thickly clustered. Trump’s 8 percentage point drop from 2016 with these...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘There is no nuance’: Bishops spar over endorsement of pro-abortion Joe Biden Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Wash. spoke out against Bishop Robert McElroy’s recent downplaying of the importance of abortion in a virtual meeting. October 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Wash. has spoken out against Bishop Robert McElroy’s recent downplaying of the importance of abortion in a virtual meeting on October 13. During the meeting, McElroy, the bishop of San Diego, Calif., questioned the claim that “candidates who seek laws opposing intrinsically evil actions automatically have a primary claim to political support in...

Bishops for Biden San Diego’s Robert McElroy emerges as another one. Should Biden win the presidency, he will be the “second practicing Catholic” to hold that office, the media informs us without irony. Neither John F. Kennedy, with his prodigious womanizing, nor Biden, with his open hostility to Church teaching, justify that label. If anything, Biden has promised not to practice his faith. Like JFK, Biden believes in the strict separation of church and state, though not in the separation of religion from campaigning. Needing to win the Catholic vote, Biden has been playing up his Catholic roots, tattered as...

‘Passion of the Christ’ lead actor blasts ‘collaborator’ bishops destroying Church Catholic actor Jim Caviezel, best known for playing Jesus in the 2004 film, unloaded on 'lukewarm' Christians in a recent Fox News interview. September 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Catholic actor Jim Caviezel, best known for playing Jesus in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ, blasted “lukewarm” Christians in a Fox News interview, saying it’s “a bloody shame” one can’t tell the difference “between a priest, a bishop, or a politician.” “I got to play Jesus, some of us love Peter or Paul, but there are many of...

Bishop threatens ‘canonical penalties’ for priest whose viral video warned Catholics can’t be Democrats But there has been an outpouring of support from laity for Father James Altman, the faithful priest who warned his flock about the dangers of voting for candidates who support intrinsic evils. PETITION: Stand with priest who faces Church penalties for saying "You can't be a Catholic and a Democrat."! Sign the petition here. LACROSSE, Wisconsin, September 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – After a Catholic priest’s video message, “You cannot be Catholic & a Democrat. Period.,” went viral, his bishop appears to be taking measures to silence him...