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WASHINGTON — Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, praised President Barack Obama’s promise to support conscience clauses.
“Caring health professionals and institutions should know that their deeply held religious or moral convictions will be respected as they exercise their right to serve patients in need,” Cardinal Francis George [...]

WASHINGTON — The Office of National Collections of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has posted new materials online to help parishes and dioceses promote participation in the Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa. The new materials can be found on the USCCB Web site.
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Africa in March and the [...]

Nearly five years ago, the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration and The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, INC. Board of Directors, made immigration reform a priority. The campaign, they decided, would emphasize  legalization of undocumented immigrants living in the United States illegally.
A diverse group of Catholic organizations with national networks joined the U.S. bishops’ in their [...]

At last weeks National Workshop on Christian Unity, Tucson Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas spoke about the Church’s position on immigration reform. The bishop, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,  explained the U.S. Catholic bishops’ five principles to guide immigration policy. They’re the same five principles we’ve been hearing for a while now, [...]

WASHINGTON — An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for awarding an anti-human trafficking contract to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services is without merit and an affront to religious liberty, said Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman [...]