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WASHINGTON — A recent Zogby poll of Catholics nationwide showed overwhelming support for reform of the nation’s immigration laws, with Catholics supporting a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million people in the country illegally.
The poll conducted Oct. 17-20, included a sample of 1,000 people who self-identified as Roman Catholics and was commissioned by [...]

A new translation of the Psalms, the proper of the seasons and a new blessing for children in the womb are on the U.S. bishops’ agenda for their Nov. 10-13 general assembly in Baltimore.
The bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship is requesting a vote on several items including the approval of the Revised Grail Psalter by [...]

Concerned for families, communities, bishops urge President Bush, DHS to drop raids
WASHINGTON— Speaking on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Bishop John C. Wester, chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on Migration, urged the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and President Bush to reexamine the use of worksite enforcement raids as an [...]

Church increasingly responsive to domestic violence, according to survey
WASHINGTON — Catholic dioceses are getting better and better at responding to domestic \violence, according to survey results released in time for the annual observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October.
The survey, Diocesan Responses to Domestic Violence, was conducted last spring. It was sponsored by the [...]

The U.S. bishops called Catholics to “renewed vigor as we seek to build together a society that cares for its own, reaches out to the poor and vulnerable, and offers true hope to all” in their annual Labor Day statement.
“Poverty has many faces. And they are the faces of our brothers and sisters here in [...]