Msgr. Burrill resigned that post July 20, 2021, amid “impending media reports alleging possible improper behavior.” In announcing the resignation, Archbishop JosÈ H. Gomez of Los Angeles, USCCB president, said the claim “did not include allegations of misconduct with minors.”
USCCB general secretary resigns; reports allege ‘possible improper behavior’
Traditional Latin Mass ‘movement’ sows division, archbishop says
While the liberal permission to use the older Mass was put in place to promote unity, it now has sown division by undermining the reforms of the Second Vatican Council through the rejection of the most important of them: the reform of the Roman Rite.
EU bishops’ commission urges action to protect religious freedom
European bishops called on the European Union to do more to protect religious freedom in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of efforts to strengthen the bloc’s role as a “global humanitarian, development, economic and peace actor.”
German churches pray, provide aid as European flooding death toll climbs
More than 195 people have been confirmed dead, while hundreds more remained missing after a record rainfall caused dams to burst and rivers to overflow into towns and streets across western Germany, Belgium, as well as parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland and northern France.
Advocates: Ruling against DACA must push Congress to act
Catholic immigration advocates are urging Congress and President Joe Biden to speed up legislation to protect immigrants.
Dioceses respond to pope’s document restoring limits on pre-Vatican II Mass
Archbishop Hebda has formed a task force to review Pope Francis’ new law to place greater oversight on the use of that form of the Mass.
TPS urged for Guatemalans; advocates say conditions in country are dire
Extensive damage from back-to-back tropical storms in late 2020 in the middle of a pandemic has made a bad situation worse in Guatemala, prompting immigration advocates July 14, 2021, to call for a special immigration status in the U.S. for Guatemalan nationals.
First-person accounts of religious repression punctuate summit
Testimony from survivors of religious repression punctuated the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington.