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Bishops consider new socially responsible investment guidelines

by | Nov 17, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

A draft document of guidelines governing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ financial investments includes wider limits on where money would be invested and advances a policy of engagement on corporate practices that impact human dignity.

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San Diego bishop asks priests not to give religious exemption for vaccine

by | Aug 17, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego urged priests Aug. 11 to “caringly decline” to provide any Catholics who request it a religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine.

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2 Catholic bishops at odds over Biden receiving Communion

by | May 9, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

They share Catholicism as a faith and California as their home base. Yet there’s a deep gulf between Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego in the high-stakes debate over whether politicians who support abortion rights should be denied Communion.

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San Diego bishop: Don’t weaponize the Eucharist for political ends

by | May 6, 2021 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

“The Eucharist must never be instrumentalized for a political end, no matter how important,” said Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego in a May 5 essay published on the website of America magazine, the Jesuit journal.

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Church leaders from U.S., Amazon ask governments to protect rainforest

by | Apr 17, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Less than a week before the U.S.-sponsored Leaders Summit on Climate, environmental and religious leaders said they are worried about talks on how to preserve the region and are asking government officials from the U.S. and the Amazon to look at kindly at the rainforest and its peoples.

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Border priest says migrant children need protection, assistance

by | Apr 14, 2021 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

When the priest of the lone Catholic parish in the U.S.-Mexico border city of Donna, Texas, considers the present situation at the border, his first concern is for the unaccompanied minors and whether or not they’re given proper protection and guidance.

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L.A.’s virtual congress offers participants ‘hope, vision’ for the future

by | Feb 24, 2021 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

For Jesus’ parents, “answering God’s call meant their whole lives were turned upside down,” not unlike the events of the past year, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said Feb. 21 at the close of the all-virtual 2021 Religious Education Congress.

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Bishops remind Catholics to approach elections with well-formed conscience

by | Oct 16, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

The Catholic voter “bears responsibility for connecting the dots between what our faith teaches and which candidates will best serve the common good,” Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City.

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Prayer vigils, protests, bishops’ homilies echo call for racial justice

by | Jun 9, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Bishops called for Americans to celebrate the country’s diversity, prayed the deep sin of racism can be overcome and invited people to remember that each person is a unique creation of God in Trinity Sunday homilies, messages and events.

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