Fear God, not Rome – advice for the US bishops

·      Sr Thea Bowman's cause for canonization could open at US bishops' meeting

Sr. Thea Bowman was the first African American woman to address the U.S. bishops' conference. Most likely, she was also the first person to get them to hold hands and sing and sway to a Negro Spiritual.

·      Pope Francis marks World War I centenary with message of peace

·      After 100 years, US Catholicism still bears the stamp of World War I

·      With US adoption needs high, Kansas looks to restrict religious agencies

·      Half of countries have fertility rates below replacement level, study finds

·      ‘Whispered in the dark’ conference aims to help fight porn

·      What do Catholics expect from USCCB meeting on abuse crisis?

·      U.S bishops welcome new HHS mandate exemptions

·      Trump signs rules restricting asylum for illegal migrants

·      Pope and Assyrian Patriarch: Blood of Middle East martyrs is ‘seed of Christian unity’

·      Archbishop Gomez after Thousand Oaks shooting: Jesus cries with us

·      Fear God, not Rome – advice for the US bishops

·      Pope Francis warns Catholic journalists against pessimism

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