
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Pope Benedict kicks off 2010 with his message for World Day of Peace, January 1. This year's message focuses on care for creation.
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1. At the beginning of this New Year, I wish to offer heartfelt greetings of peace to all Christian communities, international leaders, and people of good will throughout the world. For this XLIII World Day of Peace I have chosen the theme: If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation. ...

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Excellent CNS analysis on Pope Benedict's activities in the New Year.
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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops President of the USCCB affirms Pope Benedict's message of caring for creation for World Day of Peace 2010.
USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) Bishops Call Senate Health Care Reform Bill ‘Deficient,’ Essenti
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Cardinal George Welcomes Pope Benedict’s Day of Peace Message, Stresses Human Ecology and Natural Ecology are Inseparable

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Catholic-Methodist dialogue looks at care for creation.
USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) Care for God’s Creation Topic of United Methodist-Catholic Dialo
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WASHINGTON—As leaders of nations and scientists were gathering in Copenhagen to figure out ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions that have been linked to global warming, representatives from the United ...

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops The bishops wrote to the Senate yesterday, calling the Senate health bill deficient, urging essential changes.
USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) Bishops Call Senate Health Care Reform Bill ‘Deficient,’ Essenti
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Seek to retain federal policy on abortion funding and conscience protection Want to protect access to health care that immigrants have now, remove barriers to access Need strong provisions for adequate affordability and coverage standards

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Pope accepts resignation of Archbishop Pilarczyk of Cincinnati. Schnurr succeeds him as archbishop.
USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) Pope Accepts Resignation Of Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk Of Cinci
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WASHINGTON—Pope Benedict XVI has acaccepted the resignation of Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk, 75, from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Cincinnati. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Archbishop Dennis M. ...

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops And three bishop chairmen weigh in on Senate health care bill, saying it shouldn't proceed in its current form.
USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) HEALTH REFORM BILL NEEDS MORE WORK DESPITE NEW LANGUAGE ON ABORT
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Federal government must not expand its role enabling abortions Bill should not go forward unless and until problems remedied Protection of life, conscience rights; fairness to legal immigrants; affordability top issues

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Busy weekend on health care. Cardinal DiNardo welcomes efforts of Sen. Casey on abortion funding, but says the "compromise" in the bill is not enough.
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‘ABORTION COMPROMISE’ DOES NOT ADDRESS CORE PROBLEM IN SENATE HEALTH BILL, SAYS CARDINAL DINARDO, BISHOPS’ PRO-LIFE CHAIR

Lisa J Ehinger Tipton God Bless all the Bishops and Priests who live the call. How little they ask in return of us.

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Here's the Spanish version of the earlier blog post on the bishops' support of the Menendez Amendment to the health care bill.
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El debate sobre la reforma de salud ha llegado a otro punto crítico con algunos senadores amenazando con un boicot por lo que consideran como demasiadas concesiones y otros aprovechando la oportunidad ...

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Pope Benedict World Day of Peace Message for 2010 focuses on building peace by protecting creation. Here are some resources from the USCCB's Justice and Peace office.
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January 1 is the World Day of Peace! The Holy Fathers message for this day weaves together concerns for peace, poverty and care for creation

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops In the midst of the heated health care debate, the bishops found something to cheer about in the form of the Menendez Amendment, which allows states to opt out of the five year Medicaid ban on legal immigrants.
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Health care reform has reached yet another make it or break it point, with some digging in their heels on what they consider too many concessions and some others not wasting any time and using the opportunity ...

Jacilin L. Ehinger I've supported the USCCB for many years. I beleive in all that they are doing. Keep up the good work.

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the U.S. bishops, outlines the top 10 Catholic news stories of 2009, from a media person's perspective.
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‘Tis the season of top 10 lists, so here’s mine.Top 10 church news stories from a media relations perspective1. The House of Representatives passage of the Stupak Amendment banning expansion of abortion through health care reform. ...

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops And here's the joint letter from Cardinal DiNardo and Bishop Wester urging support of the Menendez Amendment, allowing states to opt out of 5-year wait for legal immigrants to obtain Medicaid coverage.
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