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The U.S. Catholic Bishops have declared Friday, May 13, as a day of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion in America.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) lauded the Supreme Court ruling permitting death row inmate John Ramirez to receive spiritual assistance prior to his execution.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have reacted to the Senate’s decisive defeat of the Democrat-sponsored Women’s Health Protection Act, calling the outcome a “tremendous relief.”

The pro-life office of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) has launched a letter-writing campaign in opposition to the Democrat-sponsored Women’s Health Protection Act.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has condemned the “diabolical” actions of Catholics for Choice, a dissident group that projected pro-abortion slogans on the National Basilica Thursday prior to the March for Life.

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler Texas said Friday that New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has caved to the culture of death and should stop claiming to be a “good Catholic.”

The United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) has launched a 9-day prayer campaign for the protection of unborn human life in the lead-up to the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, has launched a prayer crusade for the reversal of the fateful 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

The Catholic Church should feel free to criticize the government when necessary and “shouldn’t be captive to one party or another,” Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, said this week.

The United States Bishops’ Conference has joined with Protestants and Orthodox Christians in launching a prayer crusade against Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

The United States bishops released a long-awaited document on worthiness to receive Holy Communion Wednesday, in which they insist that politicians have a particular responsibility to uphold the Church’s moral teachings.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone warned that President Joe Biden not only dissents from Church teaching but also from “sound science” when it comes to his enthusiastic support for abortion.

Jesuit Father James Martin told Italian media that the U.S. bishops are obsessed with abortion, which clouds their vision on other equally important issues.

The Vatican declined to comment Friday about U.S. President Joe Biden’s claim that Pope Francis had encouraged him to keep receiving Holy Communion at Mass.

The former Associate Director of the U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life Office, a self-described “pro-life Democrat” said Saturday he grieves “for the disastrously wrong turn of my party.”

The U.S. Catholic bishops expressed their dismay over the 100th act of anti-Catholic vandalism since they began tracking the phenomenon last May.

The U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman Archbishop Joseph Naumann is urging President Biden to act like the “devout Catholic” he says he is by opposing the evil of abortion, Catholic News Agency reported Tuesday.

The United States Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) denounced the Women’s Health Protection Act as “the most radical abortion bill ever,” insisting it boded poorly for the future of the country.

The U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) warned Friday of a “huge battle shaping up over taxpayer funding of abortion.”

Washington, DC, Cardinal Wilton Gregory told the National Press Club Wednesday that President Biden “is not demonstrating Catholic teaching” by denying that human life begins at conception.

The Texas Catholic Bishops have praised the Supreme Court’s decision not to block the state’s Heartbeat Act, asserting that abortion is “the violent taking of innocent human life.”

Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann has insisted on the right to conscience objections for those who do not wish to receive the coronavirus vaccines.

Arlington Bishop Michael Burbidge has written a letter denouncing gender ideology and insisting that “no one” is transgender, NBC News reported this weekend.

ROME — The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has joined five other Catholic dioceses in rejecting exemptions to the coronavirus vaccines on religious grounds, just as other U.S. dioceses go in the opposite direction.

Representatives of the U.S. Bishop’s Conference (USCCB) are urging the federal government to act swiftly to help relocate refugees fleeing the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich has been applying “tremendous pressure” on the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) to withdraw its support for conscientious objection to receiving a coronavirus vaccine, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported Wednesday.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) have denounced the inclusion of taxpayer-funded overseas abortions in an appropriations bill approved by the House of Representatives this week.

The U.S. Bishops’ Office of Pro-Life Activities launched a campaign Thursday to lobby members of Congress to reject taxpayer-funding for abortions.

The U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) has condemned pro-abortion bills the House Committee on Appropriations introduced this week.

The U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) has launched a letter-writing campaign urging members of Congress to say “no” to taxpayer-funded abortion.

The United States Catholic bishops have come out strongly against efforts by Democrats in Congress to force U.S. taxpayers to fund abortions.

ROME — Pope Francis granted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken a 40-minute private audience Monday in which the pontiff expressed his “affection” for the American people.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has blasted the 60 “Catholic” Democrat congressmembers who published a defense of their public support for abortion.

The New York Times politicized the call from faithful American Catholics who urged their bishops to defend the profound teaching that Jesus is actually present in the Eucharist, and that self-professed Catholic public officials who support “grave moral evils,” such as abortion and euthanasia, not receive communion.

U.S. Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) has challenged the U.S. bishops to refuse him Holy Communion at Mass, flaunting his support for abortion and same-sex marriage.

The U.S. bishops voted overwhelmingly Friday to approve drafting a document on the reception of Holy Communion, a topic with clear repercussions for President Joe Biden, a professed Catholic who supports the expansion of abortion rights.