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New US bishops’ report identifies 5 top areas of religious liberty concerns


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OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, World News

– A new annual report by the U.S. bishops’ conference identifies five top threats to religious liberty in the United States, including a federal regulation it says could impose mandates on doctors to perform objectionable procedures and threats to the church’s service to people who are migrants.

USCCB’s Bishop Barron joins pope in calling ‘surrogate motherhood’ a grave injustice


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OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, the head of the U.S. bishops’ committee dealing with family life, voiced support Jan. 10 for Pope Francis’ recent remarks condemning gestational surrogacy as “a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child” and calling for a worldwide ban.

U.S. bishops issue flurry of responses to Vatican blessings document


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OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News

Following the Dec. 18 release of the Holy See’s declaration permitting blessings of those in irregular relationships, and the ensuing reaction from media and Catholics around the country, U.S. bishops have been responding with their own statements supporting and/or clarifying the document, known as “Fiducia Supplicans.”

German bishop denounces Polish archbishop for letter to pope protesting Germany’s reform course


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OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Synodality, World News

Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, Germany, has written a letter to his Polish counterpart, Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, accusing him of “unbrotherly behavior” and of an “enormous overstepping of his authority.” The Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita published Bishop Bätzing’s letter, dated Nov. 21, on Nov. 27.

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