The following is a summary of the key movements taken at the fall plenary assembly of the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The U. S. Catholic bishops U. S. residents returned to their dioceses after this week in Baltimore for their annual fallArray event.
The following is a summary of the key movements taken at the fall plenary assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB):
1. Elected Bishop Timothy Broglio as president.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese of Military Services of the United States has been elected president of the USCCB for a three-year term, replacing Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles. the Vatican in Côte d’Ivoire, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Rome from 1990 to 2001. As archbishop for the U. S. military services, since 2008, he has devoutly defended the freedom of military men and women when he called for a religious exemption for the COVID vaccine mandate and raised concerns about religious freedom issues akin to allowing homosexuals to serve in the military.
2. The Archbishop of Baltimore, William Lori, elected vice president.
The newly elected vice president is a strong advocate for the unborn. In his role on the bishops’ pro-life committee, Archbishop Lori has spoken out in favor of helping pregnant women and opposed the Biden administration’s proposals to expand the availability of abortion. He has been a strong supporter of the bishops’ Walking With Moms in Need 2020 initiative to help struggling pregnant women, mothers and young children.
Archbishop Lori has been an ideal chaplain for the Knights of Columbus since 2005 and joined the Knights last month on a trip to Poland and Ukraine to distribute aid. The Statutes of the Conference stipulate that the President shall not be more than 75 years of age at the end of his term of office. This is the consecutive moment the bishops have chosen to install a vice president who cannot be considered an obvious heir to the presidency. Archbishop Lori succeeds Bishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit, 74, who was elected vice president in 2019.
3. In an emotional farewell address, Archbishop Jose Gomez spoke about bishops to be missionaries in a secular culture in search of meaning.
In a moving speech, the outgoing USCCB president told the assembled bishops that a secularized society has gone astray but is experiencing a “spiritual awakening” and a preference for meaning. He called on all Catholics to evangelize and bishops in particular to share their non-public lives. encounters with Jesus in the Eucharist as a component of the upcoming Eucharistic revival. “The Church exists to evangelize,” Gomez said. There is no other explanation of why for the Church. To be a Christian is to be a missionary disciple. “
4. Bishops should begin rewriting their Catholic voting consultant after the 2024 election.
The bishops voted to postpone the publication of a comprehensive review of “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizens,” a sort of electoral consultant for Catholics, until after the 2024 election. The “pedagogical document” states that abortion deserves to be “the preeminent political issue. “”For Catholics . . . By deciding to leave the document as it is, while adding a new advent and more insertions, the bishops reaffirm their opposition to pro-abortion policies in the political realm. Additional documents, however, may simply introduce new language, said Archbishop Paul Coakley, head of the bishops’ committee on domestic justice and human development.
“Whether it’s a global war in Ukraine, other people’s questioning of our democratic system, or anything else, we want to provide some kind of guidance on a number of issues,” he said. You may be offering to other people and applying the training in a way that makes sense to them. “
5. The bishops expressed their interest in Ukraine.
The bishops gave a standing ovation after an impassioned speech on the war against Russia by Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop Borys Gudziak. Ucrania. Al raising the option of a Republican majority in the House of Representatives reneging on the nation’s commitment to the war effort in Ukraine, Cardinal McElroy called on the bishops to act to ensure the continuity of U. S. military aid. U. S. In his address, Archbishop Gudziak thanked the U. S. bishops and Catholics for their efforts. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security for continued monetary aid for humanitarian aid.
6. The bishops elected an unwavering supporter of the pro-committee.
The election of Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, a staunch advocate for life, to head the USCCB’s pro-life committee is another sign that the bishops’ advocacy for the unborn has not weakened despite the failure of pro-life initiatives. . measures during the midterm elections.
7. The bishops have reduced the budget of the Eucharistic Congress by 3 days.
Plans for the Eucharistic Renewal and Eucharistic Congress were unveiled, along with an announcement that the cost of the three-day event would be reduced from $28 million to $14 million with the help of donors and sponsors. Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, who leads the Eucharistic Revival initiative, an effort to rekindle understanding and love for Jesus in the Eucharist among Catholics, said another 80,000 people are expected to make a pilgrimage to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, where the conference will take place starting July 17, 2024. The pilgrims will depart from 4 other places, he said: one in the diocese of Brownsville, Texas; in the Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut, at the site of the tomb of Blessed Michael McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus; in San Francisco in the Cathedral of Santa María de la Asunción; and a fourth site in Crookston.
9. The bishops approved a prayer book for lay people who care for the sick.
The bishops voted to go ahead with the creation of a new prayer eeebook for lay people running among the sick. Father Andrew Menke, executive director of the Secretariat for Divine Worship of the U. S. bishops. The U. S. Department of Health Administration told CNA that he hopes the new prospective prayer eeebook will be useful in helping other lay people who wish to care for the sick. “A pastor can put this eeebook in the hands of other people who help him make stopovers in nursing homes, hospitals and places where there is no priest-chaplain every day, however, there is possibly a layman there,” Father Menke said.
10. The bishops voted to promote the reasons for the holiness of 3 American women.
The U. S. bishops must advance at the local level the reasons for beatification and canonization of the Servants of God Cora Louise Evans, a converted Catholic mother considered a mystic; Michelle Duppong, a young campus missionary who battled cancer; and Mother Margaret Mary Healy Murphy, a nun who cared for the handicapped and the African-American community.
The conference’s annual fall assembly included the election of new leadership, “faithful citizenship,” and updates on Eucharistic renewal.
“As much attention is paid to the rite as to the vocation,” said Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, discussing the desire to accompany couples embarking on the vocation of marriage.
In addition to public comments on the synod on synodality through the papal nuncio, the outgoing USCCB president and its doctrinal leader, the bishops reportedly decided on 4 delegates for next year’s synod of bishops in Rome.
Bishop Michael Burbidge discusses pro-life efforts in the wake of Dobbs as he takes over the U. S. bishops’ pro-life committee. U. S.
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