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Meatless Fridays back? U.S. bishops discuss ways to celebrate 10 years of ‘Laudato Si”


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OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Environment, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News

Methods of further incorporating “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on care of creation, into the life of the church at the local and national level was a point of discussion for the U.S. bishops in Baltimore during their fall general assembly Nov. 13, and included the suggestion of returning to the church’s longtime practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays.

Bishops hear update on plans to implement ministry of lay catechist set forth by pope


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OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News

Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, updated his fellow bishops Nov. 13 in Baltimore on his committee’s plans to implement the ministry of the lay catechist, a ministry set forward by Pope Francis in his May 2021 apostolic letter “Antiquum Ministerium.”

USCCB President: Living the virtues, listening and dialogue are vital to church, society


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OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrapped up its fall plenary assembly’s final public session Nov. 13 in Baltimore, in which the bishops discussed topics ranging from the recent election, to synodality, to care for the environment, to life issues, including abortion and immigration.

Ousted Texas bishop attacks Pope Francis, accuses U.S. bishops of silence amid ‘false messages’


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OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, whom Pope Francis removed from pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, in 2023, read an open letter Nov. 13 in Baltimore asking “what it will take for more than a few bishops to finally speak up against the false messages constantly flowing from the Vatican under the leadership of Pope Francis?”

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