...A subdued U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops acknowledged Monday that voters rejected the...despite intensive advocacy by Roman Catholic bishops in favor of traditional marriage. Bishops also spoke out sharply against President Barack...

...by Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), was organized to bring together national Lutheran officials, Synod Bishops and staff members, and advocates from throughout the nation. Pastor Munneke is the visitation pastor at First Lutheran Church...

...continue their destructive behavior. When first discovered their bishops simply moved them to another parish, not realizing the serious...actions. Unfortunately the resulting scandal also got their bishops in a lot of legal hot water, which became a windfall for attorneys...

...might succeed a pope, typically until the pope dies.Russell Shaw, a former spokesman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops who lives in the archdiocese and has known Wuerl for decades, said the cardinal has been "conspicuously on the same wavelength...

...roles in the detention, torture, and murder of suspected dissidents, and justified this in religious terms. Only a few bishops defended the human rights of the disappeared and supported organizations like the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. . . . In this...

...young priest, the current pope ministered to the poor in the slums of Buenos Aires in a deeply divided world where priests and bishops were neither exempt from the violence of government death squads nor that of Marxist guerrillas. Even in the face of this...

...whatever the denomination. Instead we could serve as models of deep respect and honor. May we serve as light and love to the world, just as our Lord has asked us to do. Thomas Aitken is the bishop of Northeastern Minnesota Synod, ELCA.

...America's Roman Catholic bishops insisted Monday that church...will protect children," Bishop Wilton Gregory, leader...Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in his opening address to the group. The bishops are meeting for four days...

...dramatic opening in which Bishop Wilton Gregory, president...States Conference of Bishops, bluntly acknowledged...deliberation." After the bishops approve a reform policy...dioceses since each bishop answers to Rome, not the bishops' conference. Otherwise...

...the church, America's Roman Catholic bishops returned home with years of work still...do" list: * Decide how to respond to bishops' own misdeeds in handling abuse claims. * Extend the bishops' strict policy to clerics in the independent...