(RNS) — At their fall meeting, the American Catholic bishops failed to communicate that they understood the startling report’s implications.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The head of the U.S. bishops conference has taken a more cautious tone over time despite initially congratulating the president-elect on his victory.

(RNS) — Most Catholics don’t want politics to divide their parishes, but the wise pastor will prepare for the worst.

(RNS) — Carr also reports that divisions among the bishops in 2019 kept them from updating their voter guide to reflect current issues and the teachings of Pope Francis.

(RNS) — In order to be totally in line with Catholic social teachings, you would have to be a pro-life liberal Democrat. These unicorns have a hard time winning elections.

(RNS) — The country’s bishops take social justice issues more seriously than the president does, a fact that’s often overshadowed in the media by attacks on Biden for his positions on abortion.

(RNS) — The coronavirus may force American Catholics to experience what liturgical life is like in the Amazon, where there are few priests and many faithful.

(RNS) — American Catholic bishops have received two sets of recommendations on how to proceed once churches begin to meet again. Either way, they should go slow.

(RNS) — Breaking with tradition, the meeting did not include a report on the recently concluded Amazon synod. 

(AP) — Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, an immigrant from Mexico, is widely expected to win election as the first Hispanic president of the bishops’ national conference.

(RNS) — By making these men cardinals, the pope is handing them megaphones.

(RNS) — Others may soon respond to mass shootings by ignoring it. No matter how horrible something is, if it is repeated time and time again, we get accustomed to it.

(RNS) — The USCCB has established a process for investigating allegations of misconduct by bishops — but lay groups say the key will be lay involvement and transparency in its implementation.

BALTIMORE (RNS) — Some prelates at the USCCB’s spring meeting, however, made clear that they support lay involvement regardless.

BALTIMORE (RNS) — The reforms the Catholic bishops passed this week to deal with the sexual abuse crisis were easy compared with changing the culture of clerical privilege that is at the heart of the abuse crisis.