“In a new survey by Pew Research C, more than 6 out of 10 Catholics in the United States (61%) express support for the legalization of abortion in their country. The results, published April 11, were extracted from a much larger study conducted in the summer of 2023, based on a sample of 5,733”
“The largest group of U.S. Catholic priests has said that Pope Francis' latest statements on priestly formation and clericalism resonates with its recommendation for a pastoral model of priestly formation.”
“The US Bishops' Conference reissues an eight-year-old voting guide to help enlighten Catholics ahead of the 2024 presidential election; and abortion remains the top issue”
“Abortion was on the ballot in just one state in the elections held in the United States on November 7, but the issue resonated in contests elsewhere. Ohio was the lone state with abortion on the ballot – an amendment to the state constitution which would enshrine a right to abortion. ”
“The Archdiocese of New Orleans, which filed for bankruptcy in 2020 in the wake of the clergy abuse scandal, announces that it is to close 10% of its parishes”
“USCCB just released 2022 annual report on the protection of children/youth shows fewer number of sexual abuse reported in the past 2 yrs. The report (Jul, 2021 - Jun, 22) states that 1,998 victims came forward with 2,704 allegations and this is 399 less than in 2021, 1,548 less than in 2020.”
“Lord of Hosts was the last church on the tour Sharlet took for the book through what you might call "Ashli Babbit country." Babbit, the conspiracy theorist and insurrectionist shot while trying to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election, has become a martyr...”
“The Pew Research Center noted in a study last April that Latino Catholics living in the US are beginning to walk away from their Church. Less than half of them now say they are still Catholic (43%), compared with 67% in 2010... "no religious affiliation" group, rising from 10% to 30%.”
“The vote follows a memo that the USCCB doctrine comt. published last March that calls for ban on gender therapies, i.e. all mental, hormonal and physical treatments given to individuals who do not recognize themselves in their birth sex... not respect "the fundamental order of human body".”
“The Southern Baptist Convention upholds expulsion of the massive Saddleback Church for a second year in a row, following its founder's continued promotion of women preachers”
“As of 2022, 43% of Hispanic adults identify as Catholic, down from 67% in 2010," said the report, "Among U.S. Latinos, Catholicism Continues to Decline but Is Still the Largest Faith.”
“Catholic bishops in the US have called on healthcare workers not to perform "gender transition" interventions, saying that they interfere with the body-soul unity of each human person that God created..."Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to Technological Manipulation of the Human Body."”
“Suzie Stapleton, who is a parish administrator in the Catholic Diocese of Toledo (Ohio) in the United States, reflects on "Clothing the Naked" (3/7).”
“As the United States marks "Black History Month" this February, African-American Catholics are searching for their place in a Church where they feel unheard”
“In a 2021 column for the Times, "God Has No Place in Supreme Court Opinions," Greenhouse decries the intrusion of religion into politics and the courts. "Republican officeholders are no longer coy about their religion-driven mission to stop abortion," she writes, ”
“One 10-year-old became the focus of debate, but more than 1,000 girls under 15 seek abortions each year. “How are we going to help the pregnant kids?””
“I suspect that Francis's popularity has much to do with the fact that he seems willing to listen before deciding. To Weinandy's point: yes, Francis can be vague or ambiguous, but vagueness and ambiguity have their prudential uses. (What Jesus had to say was not always immediately clear either)”
“But the urgency should be in offering sexual education for young people, taking measures to protect the family and reducing social inequalities, rather than following political calculations and ideological posturing.”
“U.S. Catholic bishops have long supported a reversal of Roe. "This is a historic day in the life of our country," reads a statement from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.”
“Moran soon became a Coughlin political operative, then found his niche as head of the Boston chapter of the Christian Front, a national organization of "platoons" that Coughlin created and then backed away from after the FBI arrested seventeen members of its Brooklyn chapter in 1940, ”
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US bishops say fighting abortion at ballot box is still their preeminent priority
The politics of abortion wins big in ’23 US elections
United States: Archdiocese of New Orleans to shut, merge parishes
US Catholic bishops report fewer complaints of abuse in 2022
Fundamentally fascist
Catholic Church in US trying to keep Latinos in the fold
Catholic bishops in US wade into debates over gender therapy
Southern Baptists again reject Rick Warren’s push for women pastors
Hispanics continue their rise among US Catholic population
US bishops forbid healthcare workers to perform gender transition procedures
Lent: "To clothe the naked is to follow the example of Jesus Christ" (3/7)
Black Catholics in the US are leaving the Church
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What New Abortion Bans Mean for the Youngest Patients
Has Francis "insulted" American Catholics?
Abortion in the United States: a decision that raises questions
US Supreme Court ends constitutional right to abortion
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