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Not Everyone Should Receive: What the Communion Debate’s Really About

June 23, 2021

I would not have made the decision that the American Catholic bishops just made. They voted by a three-to-one majority to authorize the drafting of a statement on “on the meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church.” It has been reported as having a single, simple political motivation, to bar pro-choice politicians

A cause advances, and dioceses are rearranged

June 21, 2021

The announcement of the resignation of two bishops, also on Saturday, was always likely to go unremarked, if unnoticed. But there are resignations and resignations, and these two were not without interest.

Church in Colombia to renew consecration of country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

June 10, 2021

Cover image: Primatial Cathedral of Bogotá, Colombia, by Bernard Gagnon – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 The Bishops of Colombia will renew the country’s consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as an expression “of the fervent yearning of the Catholic Church for unity, peace, and reconciliation in Colombia.” Cardinal Rubén Salazar, the Archbishop

63-year-old Congolese Bishop resigns: no reason given

May 18, 2021

The Vatican on Monday announced the resignation of Bishop Joseph Banga Bane, just two days shy of the Congolese prelate’s sixty-fourth birthday. Pope John Paul II named Joseph Banga Bishop of the Diocese of Buta in 1995 when he was just 38 years old. Just last month, Bishop Banga celebrated the silver jubilee of his

Bishops voice concern over treatment of religion in Irish reopening plan

March 04, 2021

CNA Staff, Mar 4, 2021 / 05:30 pm MT (CNA).- As Ireland marks the first anniversary of the novel coronavirus arriving, local Catholic bishops are calling for the government to ease its restrictions on in-person worship services.

Myanmar’s Bishops renew pleas for dialogue amid ongoing unrest

February 22, 2021

Myanmar's Catholic bishops have renewed pleas for dialogue in the midst of ongoing unrest. They also reflected on the promise that November elections had inspired, before a military coup d’état earlier this month disrupted national life and sent the country spiralling into crisis.

French Catholics fast and pray in response to controversial Bioethics bill

January 15, 2021

French Bishops launched the campaign to tackle the “widespread blindness to the dignity of every human being” represented by the new law

Catholic bishops: No ‘stable and just peace’ 25 years after Dayton Accords

December 14, 2020

The Dayton Agreement, signed in Paris 25 years ago today, ended the Bosnian War but failed to create “a stable and just peace,” the Catholic bishops of Bosnia and Herzegovina have said.