The USCCB Is Unqualified to Give an Opinion on Such Questions

On day two of the U.S. bishops’ conference fall general assembly multiple bishops called for the next iteration of the conference's voting guide to address the nation's current political realities and societal divisions.https://t.co/VgstdrSKwk

— Crux (@Crux) November 17, 2022

No Longer the Face of an Ineffectual American Episcopacy

Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, the outgoing president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressed his fellow U.S. bishops on Nov. 15 at their annual fall assembly in Baltimore. https://t.co/VBbJv6695G

— Catholic World Report (@cworldreport) November 16, 2022

The New President of the USCCB

What kind of USCCB president will Archbishop Broglio be? And what will the conference look like in three years? Analysis from @canonlawyered. https://t.co/Xa5scUMYny

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) November 16, 2022

Archbishop Broglio, former secretary for Cardinal Angelo Sodano, long-time protector of serial sexual abuser Fr. Marcial Maciel, is the new president of the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference

— Joshua McElwee (@joshjmac) November 15, 2022

Defund the USCCB

The U.S. Bishops Conference is calling on Congress to follow-through on immigration reform after the House Judiciary Committee approved language this week that would create a pathway to citizenship in the forthcoming budget reconciliation bill.https://t.co/rmxE4ugKtK

— Crux (@Crux) September 16, 2021

Excommunicate Him

Dear @USCCB: I’m Catholic and I support:

-Contraception
-A woman’s right to choose
-Treatments for infertility
-The right for people to get a divorce
-The right of same sex marriage

Next time I go to Church, I dare you to deny me Communion. https://t.co/bUmiyJ8TtH

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 18, 2021

Interview with Archbishop Cordileone

"What this is about is protecting babies and the Blessed Sacrament. What Catholic can be opposed to that?"https://t.co/OxjllRKuWp

— Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone (@ArchCordileone) May 27, 2021

So Lame

"Do or do not. There is no try." #MayThe4thBeWithYou

— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) May 4, 2021

Will a Latin Bishop Be Manly Enough to Fraternally Correct His Brother Bishops?

The administrative committee of the USCCB discussed this week a plan for its statement on "Eucharistic coherence," which will address the issue of pro-choice Catholic politicians and Holy Communion.https://t.co/K7m9BPonFF

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) March 10, 2021

At the Same Time They Do Nothing

to impede feminism or the other ideologies that are destructive of marriage.

May we who are united by marriage, be bound together in mutual affection, in likeness of mind, and in shared holiness. #NationalMarriageWeek pic.twitter.com/rEzPhZWzJW

— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) February 7, 2021

The Real Crisis of Legitimacy

on many levels, is that Massimo Faggioli holds an academic position at a supposed Catholic university.

The USCCB is out of step not only with the new president, but also with many in the Catholic flock, as well as with the Vatican.

It's nothing less, writes @MassimoFaggioli, than a crisis of legitimacy: https://t.co/3keKuSutz6

— Commonweal Magazine (@commonwealmag) February 3, 2021

Meanwhile, his patriarch at work...

Healing Traditionalism? Heck, “physician, heal thyself.”https://t.co/5kve6Yy34L

— John Stone (@Johnthemadmonk) February 4, 2021

A Bureaucracy Like Any Other

A bureaucracy takes the natural instinct of living organisms to stay alive and perverts it, striving to keep itself in existence even if it is useless.

"The USCCB, like many bureaucracies, is populated by well-qualified, well-intentioned, well-formed and hardworking people, but, perhaps by design, no single one of them feels definitively empowered to overcome the momentum of the whole." https://t.co/tKvXHgjTvp

— JD Flynn (@jdflynn) January 13, 2021

And I have doubts about the motivations of people who seek work in bureaucracies.

Spokesman for the Uhmerican Church

D.C. cardinal says Church, Biden have common ground on immigration, race relations, by @eliseannallen https://t.co/EjIq9LEQIw

— Crux (@Crux) November 25, 2020

Archbishop Wilton Gregory says he won't deny Joe Biden communion over his pro-choice agenda.

Here's what that decision could mean for Gregory's ecclesial reform mandate.https://t.co/kJZbBUbm8e

— JD Flynn (@jdflynn) November 24, 2020

Does Christ Reign over the Heterodox among the USCCB and in Its Bureaucracy?

The Solemnity of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI on December 11, 1925 with the encyclical Quas primas. When our nation is beset by civic unrest, racial tension, and a pandemic, we do well to turn to Our Lord, who reigns over every people and nation. pic.twitter.com/WqEB6HdyHS

— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) November 22, 2020

I Don't Care if the USCCB Gives This Unofficial Opinion Either

News: The US Conference of Catholic Bishops @USCCB distributed an internal memo today saying that the @pfizer and @moderna_tx vaccines are morally permissible for Catholics, days after at least two bishops claimed they were not. My story: https://t.co/xoQAitybZY

— Michael J. O'Loughlin (@MikeOLoughlin) November 24, 2020

Tools of Statism

Weigel and Murray are both wrapped up in statist civic nationalist myths and hence ignorant of what is truly required for upholding community and culture. A failure in politike 101.

To the contrary. Murray knew that the United States was an idea or “proposition” nation: a polity built, not on the old foundations of blood and soil, but on the foundations of a common commitment to certain truths—truths that he, a good natural law man, believed were inscribed into the world and into us; truths that we could know by the exercise of reason; truths that, known, disclosed our duties as individuals and as citizens. But Murray also knew that a nation “so conceived and so dedicated” would not long endure, if the moral and intellectual foundations that make self-governance for the common good possible were to collapse; if the “truths” on which the American democratic experiment relied for its tensile strength were no longer held.

Father John Courtney Murray, S.J. was one of the first to sound the alarm bells regarding the decoupling of democracy and moral truth, for he believed that reducing democracy to simply a set of functions would be damaging to its very foundation. https://t.co/HeFPDyVtoh

— Law & Liberty (@LawLiberty) November 22, 2020

Law and Liberty


Does he reign over the heterodox associated with the USCCB?

The Solemnity of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI on December 11, 1925 with the encyclical Quas primas. When our nation is beset by civic unrest, racial tension, and a pandemic, we do well to turn to Our Lord, who reigns over every people and nation. pic.twitter.com/WqEB6HdyHS

— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) November 22, 2020

A Discussion of the USCCB and Vos Estis

This week on @CNAeditorsdesk, @canonlawyered and I talked about...the USCCB, whether Vos estis investigations should be private, and then about Cardinal Becciu's lawsuit.

Plus Ed wears a flannel shirt.https://t.co/PqUvZGB3Mx

— JD Flynn (@jdflynn) November 21, 2020

A Bishop's Judgment of Particulars is No Better Than That of a Layman

Rush transcript of USCCB prez Archbishop Gomez's statement regarding the election, made at the close of the bishop's conference.

He lauds Biden on immigration, climate change, etc., but says president-elect's views on abortion "creates confusion with the faithful." #USCCB2020 pic.twitter.com/TXlBoPvP6b

— Jack Jenkins (@jackmjenkins) November 17, 2020

The McCarrick Report is Released. No Surprises

Shifting the blame onto others, no revelations about what Francis did know, and putting some of the blame on Archbishop Viganò.

The full McCarrick report is now online and public:https://t.co/gwpHjH7RKt

— Cindy Wooden (@Cindy_Wooden) November 10, 2020

The #McCarrickReport: Full Text and A Vatican Summary | National Catholic Register https://t.co/WF5kvpnWac @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) November 10, 2020

#BREAKING Vatican releases report on disgraced former Cardinal and sexual predator Theodore #McCarrick.

No press conference accompanied this document release, no statement from the #Vatican was made.https://t.co/yTCSHOMEX1 pic.twitter.com/Ztk93jJzQK

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) November 10, 2020

By the early 1980s, one New York mother knew she had to speak up about Theodore McCarrick and her sons. #McCarrickReport https://t.co/O0qvJy73Oy

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) November 10, 2020

The #McCarrickReport includes a letter written by a U.S. cardinal in 1999 objecting to McCarrick’s appointment to a higher office because of allegations of misconduct, including at a New Jersey beach house. https://t.co/fUwap1h0Xc

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) November 10, 2020

Statement on Holy See’s Report on Theodore McCarrick Most Reverend José H. Gomez Archbishop of Los Angeles President, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: https://t.co/HzuFRE7O8l pic.twitter.com/jhq66P729i

— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) November 10, 2020

The #McCarrickReport is a sad whitewash. Contrary to this headline, blaming JPII, the report says "3 of the 4" New Jersey bishops" provided John Paul “with inaccurate and incomplete in information…regarding McCarrick’s sexual conduct with young adults.” 1/2 https://t.co/kGAuKUh32F

— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) November 10, 2020

It remains unknown how much Pope Francis knew about McCarrick in the five years between Francis’ election as pope and his removing the former cardinal from ministry, @ColleenDulle writes.https://t.co/QMfscDikFN

— America Magazine (@americamag) November 9, 2020

“In the case of #McCarrick, the simple fact is that pathological personalities lie and deceive people - even intelligent and saintly people - and that’s what McCarrick was able to do," said George Weigel. https://t.co/awhGiqwdR2

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) November 10, 2020

The Vatican report recognizes the history of Theodore McCarrick as a serious injury to the Catholic Church. But it does not address the crucial question of influence: the influence that McCarrick wielded, and the influence that promoted him. https://t.co/P0fMtSkqee

— Philip Lawler (@PhilLawler) November 10, 2020

My instant reaction to the #McCarrickReport: its chief purpose is to obscure the shameful role played by Pope Francis, who rehabilitated McCarrick and his cronies because they were useful to him, and acted only when the media forced him to. https://t.co/DH24ojFfDJ

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) November 10, 2020

This tells us so much about the politics of today’s @USCCB https://t.co/4WW3NGjwkv

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) November 10, 2020

First glance, the McCarrick report is a very sobering, astringent read that doesn’t hide any uncomfortable truths. It just lets the chips fall where they ....... BLAHAHAHA Nope. All blame shifted to nobodies or the deceased.

— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) November 10, 2020

Vatican’s McCarrick Report reveals crucial gaps in Archbishop Vigano’s ‘testimony’ https://t.co/C3QwmHFuer

— America Magazine (@americamag) November 10, 2020

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò issues initial response to the #McCarrickReport: pic.twitter.com/6yauaD5uGL

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) November 10, 2020

It's truly astonishing that Francis still imagines that anyone takes him seriously. Thank God for Viganò and, quite frankly, to hell with the Vatican spin machine! https://t.co/ffWtjth1Pf

— Michael J. Matt (@Michael_J_Matt) November 10, 2020

Foreign-Born Clerics in Need of an American Civics Lesson

.@ArchbishopGomez, President of U.S. Bishops’ Conference, issues a statement on the 2020 Presidential Election: https://t.co/m0rlOnusgn. pic.twitter.com/7MY5W2qdf4

— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) November 7, 2020

The People of America have spoken. It is time to come together for the sake of the Nation. Congratulations to President-elect @JoeBiden VP-elect @KamalaHarris. We pray for them and President Trump to work together for the peaceful transfer of power. One Nation under God!

— Elpidophoros (@Elpidophoros) November 7, 2020

Chastisement

How will cancelled meetings and a changing financial reality shape the future of the USCCB? Analysis from @jdflynn https://t.co/yby7ESWYYB

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) August 21, 2020