OSV News WASHINGTON — Ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement Oct. 14 reminding the faithful that “For citizens in a representative democracy such as our own, participation in public life — including voting — is both a right and […]
Bishops approve pastoral message on immigration
OSV News BALTIMORE — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a “special pastoral message on immigration” Nov. 12, voicing “our concern here for immigrants” at their annual fall plenary assembly in Baltimore. The statement came as a growing number of bishops have acknowledged that some of the Trump administration’s immigration policies risk presenting the […]