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As more than 200 U.S. bishops met at the Marriott Baltimore Waterfront hotel Nov. 16, a series of speakers castigated them from across the street at a waterfront pavilion.
Coming together for the first time in two years has been good for the bishops of the United States, in the judgment of Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
A draft document of guidelines governing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ financial investments includes wider limits on where money would be invested and advances a policy of engagement on corporate practices that impact human dignity.
The U.S. bishops discussion of their statement on the Eucharist Nov. 16 in Baltimore took a drastically different tone than their previous debate about what the document could potentially contain during their virtual assembly five months ago.
The U.S. bishops considered a new resolution on diocesan financial reporting Nov. 16, the first of two days of public sessions during their Nov. 15-18 fall general assembly in Baltimore.
The U.S. bishops gave consideration to a revised English edition of the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults.
A group of sex abuse survivors in a Nov. 16 news conference called on the prelates meeting in Baltimore to focus less on who can take Communion and instead do more to end sex abuse and other abuses by clergy.
The U.S. bishops’ proposed statement on the Eucharist “cannot be partisan,” nor should it be made such “through calculated expression or calculated suppression of our doctrine and belief,” said the head of the bishops’ National Advisory Council.
The jury in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial was to move into a third day of deliberations Thursday, even as its request to re-watch video in the case sparked a fresh bid from his attorneys for a mistrial.
Jurors weighing charges against Kyle Rittenhouse were to return Wednesday for a second day of deliberations in his murder trial, after they failed to reach a swift verdict on whether he was the instigator in a night of bloodshed in Kenosha or a concerned citizen who came under attack while trying to protect property.
