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 The US Conference of Catholic Bishop held their annual meeting in Baltimore this week. The Bishops approved changes to the liturgy, a new pastoral letter on marriage, revised end-of-life care directives and many other items.
Bishop Stephen Blaire from the Diocese of Stockton and current president of the California Catholic Conference was elected chairman of USCCB's Domestic Justice and Human Development Committee. Other committee chairs were elected as well.
For a complete rundown of all the developments of the meeting, the results of the committee votes and links to the various documents and other activities, click here. |
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 WASHINGTON-A nationwide survey commissioned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has found widespread public opposition to including abortion in health care reform and majority support for conscience rights protection - views shared by those who favor efforts to pass health care reform.
Conducted by International Communications Research (ICR) from September 16-20, 2009, the phone survey of 1,043 U.S. adults found that 60 percent favor - and only thirty percent oppose - "efforts to pass health care reform to provide affordable health insurance for all." Focusing on that sixty percent, the survey found that:
• Sixty percent of those favoring reform oppose - and only 25 percent support - "measures that would require people to pay for abortion coverage with their federal taxes."
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WASHINGTON - Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Migration, expressed the Committee's support for the Reuniting American Families Act (S. 1085) introduced May 20. He did so in a June 2 letter to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
The Act proposes reforms to the family-based immigration system that would allow immigrant families to more quickly reunite in the United States.
"Family reunification has represented the cornerstone of the U.S. immigration system, and should remain its central tenet in the future," Bishop Wester said. He stressed that the United States "should resist proposals which would erode the family-based immigration system."
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