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• Immigration concerns top of mind for US bishops at fall assembly

  

  By JULIE ASHER, OSV News
  Published November 12, 2025

  From the opening gavel to adjournment Nov. 11, the immigration issue was at the forefront for much of the first day of public sessions of the U.S. bishops’ fall plenary assembly in Baltimore. The bishops also elected a new president and vice-president.

• With synod in mind, US bishops focus on advancing core mission priorities

  

  By PETER JESSERER SMITH, OSV News
  Published November 15, 2024

  The U.S. bishops’ annual fall assembly saw the shepherds of the church in this country make intentional steps toward integrating their work with the synodal missionary style called for by the global church’s Synod on Synodality.

• US bishops’ meeting shows united front on mission but no clear synod action plan

  

  By PETER JESSERER SMITH
  Published November 17, 2023

  For two days, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met in plenary assembly in Baltimore advancing key issues related to liturgy, living out the faith, including in the public square, and retooling the conference to better serve the church’s mission.

• U.S. bishops advance initiatives to strengthen church amid discussions on Eucharist, priesthood, synodality

  

  By PETER JESSERER SMITH, OSV News
  Published June 17, 2023

  Meeting in Orlando for their spring assembly, the U.S. bishops moved ahead on some efforts to advance the church’s mission in the U.S., including new pastoral initiatives aimed at activating Catholics as missionary disciples

• The Georgia Bulletin recognized with nine Catholic Press Awards

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Editor
  Published June 12, 2023

  The Georgia Bulletin received nine Catholic Press Awards during the 2023 Catholic Media Conference, held June 6-9 in Baltimore.

• CRS leader concerned by growing needs of refugees fleeing Ukraine

  

  By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
  Published March 9, 2022

  In response to more than 2 million refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine in recent weeks, the president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services said it is “alarming to see the scale of the suffering” in the region.

• Communion statement aims to ‘retrieve and revive’ understanding

  

  By CAROL ZIMMERMANN, Catholic News Service
  Published November 18, 2021

  The U.S. bishops approved their statement on the Eucharist with 222 “yes” votes Nov. 17, the second of two days of public sessions during their Nov. 15-18 fall general assembly.

• U.S. bishops focus on Communion, synodality, finances in fall assembly

  

  By CAROL ZIMMERMANN, Catholic News Service
  Published November 17, 2021

  The U.S. bishops, gathered for the first time in person since 2019, discussed the highly anticipated statement on the Eucharist without the heated discussion it stirred up in their previous meeting.

• Synod on synodality should not avoid problems, archbishop says in homily

  

  By CHRISTOPHER GUNTY, Catholic News Service
  Published November 16, 2021

  More than 200 bishops and archbishops and six cardinals concelebrated the opening Mass for the fall assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the first in-person gathering for the prelates since November 2019.

• Bishops hear that third-party reporting system may start in February

  

  By DENNIS SADOWSKI, Catholic News Service
  Published November 16, 2019

  A third-party reporting system to field sexual misconduct allegations against bishops could be in place by the end of February, an official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told the bishops during their fall general assembly in Baltimore.

• Gomez: Nation has ‘moral obligation’ to keep promise to DACA recipients

  

  By Catholic News Service
  Published November 14, 2019

  The “failures” of the nation’s leaders in Washington to make “comprehensive reforms to immigration policy “cut across party lines,” said Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles.

• U.S. bishops examine challenges faced by church, society

  

  By CAROL ZIMMERMANN Catholic News Service
  Published November 14, 2019

  On the agenda for the U.S. bishops’ Nov. 11-13 meeting in Baltimore were elections and discussions of key challenges in the church and the nation.

• Bishops’ actions at spring meeting called a ‘work in progress’

  

  By CAROL ZIMMERMANN, Catholic News Service
  Published June 17, 2019

  The gathering of U.S. bishops June 11-13 in Baltimore was anything but business as usual. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, said this meeting had a “sense of urgency” and momentum to it, both in the smaller group gatherings and when the bishops were all together.

• Review board chair calls for greater lay involvement as church tackles abuse

  

  By DENNIS SADOWSKI, Catholic News Service
  Published June 13, 2019

  National Review Board chairman Francesco Cesareo offered the U.S. bishops meeting in Baltimore a series of recommendations that he said will strengthen the church’s response to the ongoing clergy sexual abuse crisis.

• Parishes, schools urged to take part in CRS Rice Bowl campaign

  

  Published January 28, 2019

  BALTIMORE—A young South Sudanese refugee raising her siblings in Uganda’s Bidi Bidi refugee settlement. A father returning home after decades of civil war in Sri Lanka to find his farm overgrown. A young woman unable to find work in Gaza—and forbidden from seeking opportunity abroad. These are just some of the stories participants will explore […] Full Story

• U.S. bishops’ meeting has echoes, and differences, from 2002 gathering

  

  By CAROL ZIMMERMANN, Catholic News Service
  Published November 24, 2018

  BALTIMORE (CNS)—The gathering of U.S. bishops in Baltimore Nov. 12-14 on the heels of the clergy abuse scandal that hit the Catholic Church this past summer had echoes of the 2002 bishops’ meeting in Dallas, which took place just months after the church was also reeling from clergy sexual abuse crisis that made headlines in […] Full Story

• Bishops overwhelmingly approve pastoral letter against racism

  By MARK PATTISON, Catholic News Service
  Published November 20, 2018

  BALTIMORE (CNS)—The U.S. bishops overwhelmingly approved a pastoral letter against racism Nov. 14 during their fall general meeting at Baltimore. The document, “Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love—A Pastoral Letter Against Racism,” passed 241-3 with one abstention. It required a two-thirds vote by all bishops, or 183 votes, for passage. “Despite many […] Full Story

• New film tells true story of how stray dog turned family’s life around

  

  By CHRIS GUNTY, Catholic News Service
  Published October 23, 2017

  BALTIMORE (CNS)—For a lot of people, surviving getting struck by lightning might be enough to change their life. Hollywood writer and director Mitch Davis lived through such an ordeal, but in the mind of Davis and his family, that’s not what turned their life around. It was a stray dog named Pluto, who is immortalized […]

• Catholic leaders call on Congress to increase humanitarian aid in budget

  

  Published December 1, 2016

  BALTIMORE (CNS)—The head of Catholic Relief Services and the chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees have urged congressional leaders to approve additional funding for humanitarian relief and recovery operations as part of a comprehensive budget measure for fiscal 2017. The Catholic leaders wrote a letter Nov. 28 in support of a request by the Obama […] Full Story

• Archbishop calls for bishops’ racism statement, given election tension

  

  By RHINA GUIDOS, Catholic News Service
  Published November 17, 2016

  BALTIMORE (CNS)—Earlier this year, as communities faced tensions, protests and violence, following a spate of shooting and killings of black men by police, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, of Louisville, Kentucky, as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, asked dioceses across the country to observe a day of prayer for peace. He also wanted the […] Full Story