New Ways Ministry, which dissents from Catholic teaching on homosexuality, criticized “The Body-Soul Unity of the Human Person,” a recent pastoral letter on gender ideology by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Michael Barber, SJ of Oakland.
At their fall meeting in Baltimore, the US bishops reelected Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City as USCCB secretary and elected six new committee chairmen.
After Ohio recently enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution, the US Bishops have eleceted an Ohio bishop to lead the Pro-Life Activities Committee.
The iconoclasts who unlawfully torched and toppled the Sacramento statue of a historic Spanish missionary in 2020 were rewarded Tuesday with a substitute evidently palatable to those antipathetic to the region's Christian heritage. Where the statue of Junípero Serra once stood now stands the lik.