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Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, meets with reporters in Baltimore on Nov. 15, 2022. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Baltimore, Md., Nov 14, 2023 / 15:03 pm (CNA). The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Archbishop Timothy Broglio, on Tuesday called on Israel to pursue negotiations…

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at the USCCB fall plenary assembly Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit: USCCB video Baltimore, Md., Nov 14, 2023 / 15:35 pm (CNA). Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, reminded his brother bishops of Christ’s commission to evangelize the world in…

The concept of synodality took center stage in the opening speeches at the U.S. bishops’ conference meeting this week, with the papal nuncio stressing the need for the bishops to embrace synodality, and the conference president ways the bishops are already living out the model. Subscribe now The speeches follow tension within the conference, after…

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meets for its fall plenary assembly meeting Nov. 14, 2023, in Baltimore. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Baltimore, Md., Nov 14, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA). The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops elected Archbishop Paul S. Coakley as conference secretary as well as six new chairmen-elect on Nov. 14…

The Catholic Church in Ghana needs to engage in “aggressive catechesis” after census figures showed it is shrinking rapidly, the president of the country’s bishops’ conference said Monday. In a Nov. 13 address at the bishops’ plenary assembly in Sunyani, west-central Ghana, Bishop Matthew K. Gyamfi noted that the proportion of Ghanaians identifying as Catholics…