U.S. and Canadian bishops to hold ‘virtual’ continental synod assemblies
The U.S. Bishops’ Conference has announced that it will join the Canadian Bishops’ Conference for 10 virtual continental assemblies in late 2022 through early 2023.
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by bcadmin | Oct 28, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Church in the US, lead, News, Pope Francis, Synod of Bishops, synodality, USCCB | 0 |
The U.S. Bishops’ Conference has announced that it will join the Canadian Bishops’ Conference for 10 virtual continental assemblies in late 2022 through early 2023.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, lead, News, Synod of Bishops, synodality, USCCB | 0 |
While the report summarizing tens of thousands of U.S. listening sessions in the first phase of the Catholic Church’s synodal process has been submitted to the Vatican, the experience of synodality is just beginning.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Church in the US, clergy sex abuse crisis, lead, News, Synod, USCCB, Vatican, welcoming | 0 |
Throughout the diocesan phase of the Synod on Synodality U.S. Catholics consistently highlighted several “enduring wounds” that plague the nation’s Church, and called for the Church to better welcome marginalized communities.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 27, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, diocese of Brownsville, laity, News, Synod of Bishops | 0 |
The synodal process that is underway is an invitation to people in the Catholic Church to listen to each other and can lead to greater leadership by laypeople within the church, Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, told a webinar audience.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 15, 2022 | Abortion, Bishop Daniel Flores, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Immigration, News, Roe v. Wade | 0 |
Despite their pro-life bona fides, a five-member panel at a July 14 Georgetown University forum voiced their hesitancies with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 4, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, immigration laws, Migrants, News, Texas-Mexican border, Title 42 | 0 |
In a homily delivered at a Mass for migrants disappointed that U.S.-imposed border restrictions would remain in place, Jesuit Father Brian Strassburger told them: Title 42 is not God’s plan.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, school shooting, Texas | 0 |
Some U.S. bishops spoke out against the easy accessibility to guns in the country following a May 24 rampage that left at least 19 children and two of their elementary school teachers dead in Uvalde, Texas.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Church in the US, criminal justice, Death penalty, lead, News, Sister Helen Prejean, Texas, Texas Conference of Catholic Bishops | 0 |
Soon after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay on the execution of Melissa Lucio on April 25 the bishops of Texas both commended her religious conversion, and lamented a flawed justice system that resulted in a “dubious” conviction.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, Governor Greg Abbott, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference | 0 |
Texas Catholic leaders and other opponents of the death penalty are urging Texas officials to grant clemency to a 53-year-old Latina woman set to be executed in late April.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 21, 2021 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Catholic leaders, Interviews, lead, Migration, News, Synod | 0 |
According to Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas, the Catholic Church has to have an independent voice to speak up when they agree or disagree with the government.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 21, 2021 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Catholic leaders, Interviews, lead, Migration, News, Synod | 0 |
According to Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas, the Catholic Church has to have an independent voice to speak up when they agree or disagree with the government.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 19, 2021 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Cardinal Mario Grech, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Synod of Bishops, synodality, USCCB, USCCB fall assembly | 0 |
The synodal process the church is entering into is meant to show that “no one is unimportant in this time of listening,” Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, told his fellow bishops gathered for their annual fall general assembly.
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