Since the bishop’s two general assemblies last year, they have been confronted with an overwhelming need to prove to U.S. Catholics that abuse within their own ranks won’t be tolerated.
Bishops’ actions at spring meeting called a ‘work in progress’
Bishops may revise U.S. catechism to update capital punishment stance
During their June 11-13 meeting in Baltimore, the U.S. bishops are looking at what the U.S. church teaches its adult members about the death penalty and they will vote about adding a revised passage to the U.S. Catechism for Adults about this.
Nuncio’s message to bishops: ‘Unity prevails over conflict’
Recalling “there were some expressions of ‘dissent'” by some U.S. bishops when the bishops met last November over the Vatican’s request that they postpone voting on agenda items related to the reemergent clergy sexual abuse crisis, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s nuncio to the United States, reminded them that “unity prevails over conflict.”