Francis-aligned’ bishops are following the late pope’s lead in stirring debate where politics and pastoral issues meet.

The U.S. bishops’ doctrine committee on Thursday issued a statement stating that newer methods of human burial do not show respect for the human body.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Tuesday chose two conservatives to serve as national president and vice president, a move that signals strong support among the nation’s top bishops ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted a softer wording on whether politicians who support access to abortion should take Communion.

While some US Catholic bishops continue to denounce President Joe Biden for his support of legal abortion, their conference as a whole is likely to avoid direct criticism of him at its upcoming ...

Your thoughts: More NCR readers respond to the news that the U.S. bishops advanced plans to draft a document addressing Communion for pro-choice Catholic politicians.

Days after a vote that triggered a tsunami of Catholic debate about Communion and politics, leading U.S. Catholic bishops working on an upcoming document about the sacrament are now de-emphasizing ...

U.S. Catholic bishops have overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a "teaching document" that many of them hope will rebuke Catholic politicians, including President Joe Biden, for receiving ...

Conservative American Catholic bishops are pressing for a debate over whether Catholics who support the right to an abortion should be allowed to take Communion.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the governing body of the church in the United States, welcomed Biden on Inauguration Day with a statement praising his “piety.” But it made a point of ...

Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, on Saturday congratulated projected president-elect Joe Biden, and called for dialogue and compromise ...