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	The Bishops Conference of Scotland
		he Bishops' Conference of Scotland is the permanently constituted assembly of the Bishops of Scotland.
		To promote its work the Conference establishes various agencies, the most important of which are termed Commissions.
		The agencies have an advisory function in relation to the Conference; each, according to its remit, may also have an executive function; and, between meetings of the Conference, an agency may respond to an immediate problem by taking decisions or issuing a statement in its own name.
	www.scmo.org /_titles/bishops_conference.htm (110 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Bishops poised to pick leader; unsettled times for Catholics
		Bishop Wilton Gregory of Belleville, Ill., is ending his three-year term as president, having guided the group through possibly the most tumultuous period in its history.
		At its core, the bishops' conference is not a governing or enforcement body but rather a collegial one that can only set guidelines that direct the church on a national level.
		But longtime observers of the conference are watching the election closely because "there's enormous significance" on whom the bishops choose as their next president and vice president, said Francis Butler, president of Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities, a consortium of foundations that fund Catholic causes.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002090623_bishops14m.html (1131 words)

	CNS STORY: Bishop Skylstad elected president of U.S. bishops' conference
		Bishop Skylstad, 70, was vice president of the bishops' conference under Bishop Gregory.
		Bishop Skylstad has been a supporter of getting local congregations involved in ecumenical dialogue so that people at the parish level can be "very up front and honest" about issues and obstacles to unity.
		Bishop Skylstad was born March 2, 1934, in Omak, Wash. He graduated from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1960 for the Spokane Diocese.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0406269.htm (853 words)

	English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bishops' Conference is a concrete means of realizing the collegiality of the bishops, that is, their common responsibility for the guiding of the Church which they have together with the Pope who is the head of the Church.
		At present the Scandinavian Bishops' Conference has 12 members who represent all seven of the Catholic dioceses in the Nordic countries.
		The Scandinavian Bishops' Conference is not a large organization and together the dioceses have no more than about 250,000 Catholics.
	www.catholic.se /nbk/indexeng.htm (302 words)

	Bishops' conference approves directives - sterilization services prohibited in Catholic hospitals, ecclesiastical ...
		In other matters, the National Catholic Conference of Bishops reaffirmed traditional Catholic doctrine that the Eucharist is not a symbol of Jesus Christ but his real and living presence, set Jan. 22 as a day of penance for abortion and euthanasia, and called for an end to violence between Israelis and Palestinians in the Mideast.
		The bishops' approval of a revised set of ethical and religious directives governing Catholic health care institutions is likely to affect many of the 1,140 Catholic hospitals in the nation.
		The amendments advise bishops that any negative judgment about some portion of a theologian's work should be assessed in terms of the significance of that portion of the work to his or her overall theological contribution, its relationship to the larger Catholic tradition and its implications for the life of the church.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_33_37/ai_76402200 (796 words)

	Bishops: Document on homosexuals needs careful analysis \| The-Tidings.com
		The Swiss bishops' conference also focused on the issue of priestly celibacy or chastity, which was not specifically mentioned in the Vatican document.
		Bishop Giraud said seminarians, like other young men in their 20s, can sometimes go through a narcissistic stage that is not the same as homosexuality.
		Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., said the document should encourage bishops and religious superiors to discuss with seminary rectors and vocations directors the criteria for judging the maturity priesthood candidates should have on emotional and sexual matters.
	www.the-tidings.com /2005/1202/vatbishops.htm (944 words)

	:: ELCA :: synodical relations - conference of bishops
		Each of the 65 synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elects a bishop to serve as the synod's chief pastor and to exercise administrative oversight of the synod's work.
		While primarily advisory [with the Church Council being the ELCA's board of directors], the role of the Conference of Bishops is significant within the life of this church.
		The conference has a particular role in matters related to rostered leaders, reviewing proposals from Vocation and Education before they are passed along to the Church Council for adoption.
	www.elca.org /synods/bishops.html (184 words)

	United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
		The USCCB is an assembly of the Catholic Church hierarchy who work together to unify, coordinate, promote, and carry on Catholic activities in the United States; to organize and conduct religious, charitable, and social welfare work at home and abroad; to aid in education; and to care for immigrants.
		The bishops themselves constitute the membership of the Conference and are served by a staff of over 350 lay people, priests, deacons, and religious.
		In the five years since U.S. bishops adopted the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People at their June 2002 meeting in Dallas, dioceses have made significant strides to instill practices that will ensure the safety of children in the church.
	www.nccbuscc.org (201 words)

	Bishops Mull Restructuring: NCCB Report, Part II
		Bishop Lynch remarked that it had been agreed that no statements related to the priesthood should be issued unless they come before the full body, and that certain topics "by their very nature" should come before the whole body.
		Many bishops besides Archbishop Weakland may not be fully aware that when they approve the "Priorities and Plans" of the NCCB committees at each meeting, they signal their prior approval of any committee's plans to produce documents.
		Although the American bishops' discussion of these issues reveals their increasing concern about the authority and integrity of statements issued by the conference and its committees, as well as the uses to which these statements are put in the local Church, it remains to be seen whether they can achieve real and necessary change.
	www.adoremus.org /299BishopsMull.html (1984 words)

	Rod Dreher on Bishops' Conference on National Review Online
		Bishop Wilton Gregory, head of the bishops' conference, delivered a dramatic address in which he unreservedly blamed the bishops for the greater part of this catastrophe, and apologized to victims and others.
		Demarest said the bishops ought to draft a code of conduct for priests regarding relations with children and young people, and that the Catholic laity, especially parents, should be educated about it.
		Demarest noted that the bishops were not talking about whistleblower protection for good priests who know about sexual misconduct among their brother priests, but who are afraid to come forward because of possible repercussions to their priestly careers.
	www.nationalreview.com /dreher/dreher061402.asp (1514 words)

	Restructure for Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
		The reconfiguration of the Conference "streamlines" the committees and agencies which serve the Conference, the Bishops said in the letter.
		Meanwhile, the Bishops this week have invited a group of Islamic leaders to their Plenary Meeting to have lunch together, to engage in interfaith dialogue and to visit the tomb of Blessed Mary Mackillop.
		Bishop Issam Darwish, the Melkite Bishop in Australia welcomed the Islamic delegation and said the luncheon and dialogue meeting was one of the fruits of the Australian Christian-Muslim Friendship Society, formed some years ago.
	www.cathnews.com /news/605/75.php (1172 words)

	The Bishops' Conference of Scotland > Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bishops' Conference of Scotland is the permanently constituted assembly of the Roman Catholic Bishops of Scotland.
		The members of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland are the Diocesan Bishops.
		The Bishops' Conference of Scotland participates in a number of National, European and International bodies that foster dialogue in a Catholic, Ecumenical, Interfaith and broader political context.
	www.bpsconfscot.com (513 words)

	Voice Of the Faithful
		While not allowed to attend the Bishops’ Conference, we were present at the Conference to bear witness and to attend and to participate in the SNAP Conference that also was taking place in St. Louis.
		While many bishops are doing all they can to restore trust and create an environment of accountability, justice, and healing, the Conference as a whole did little to demonstrate the Bishops’ collective commitment to the crisis as they had described it in the Dallas Charter.
		What some bishops do not understand is that the Church and the public demand that this crisis be treated as a ministry – a ministry for justice and healing for the victim/survivors of clergy sexual abuse and for the entire Church itself.
	www.votf.org /bishopsconference/0626sak.html (1201 words)

	National Catholic Register: Abuse audits reveal authority clash of bishops and bishops conference - Catholic Online
		It states, “Bishops, whether individually or united in conference, cannot autonomously limit their own sacred power in favor of the episcopal conference, and even less can they do so in favor of one of its parts, whether the permanent council or a commission or the president” (No. 20).
		Bishop Bruskewitz also argued that the sexual abuse charter is not binding on individual dioceses, unlike the provisions of the Vatican’s “Essential Norms” for the handling of sexual abuse cases in the United States.
		When an individual bishop, such as Bishop Bruskewitz, refuses to participate, Ewers said that “fraternal correction seems the appropriate means” to address the situation since the bishops’ conference lacks authority to compel cooperation.
	www.catholic.org /national/national_story.php?id=19528 (1773 words)

	bishops
		The Catholic Bishops` Conference of England and Wales delegation was led by Archbishop Patrick Kelly, supported by Meeting Co-ordinator Fr.
		Piergiuseppe Vachelli, sub-secretary, Catholic Bishops` Conference of Italy, Bishop Joan Enric Vives of Spain, Bishop William Kenney of Scandinavia, representing European bishops' grouping COMECE (The Commission of the Bishops` Conferences of the European Community), and Bishop Pierre Burcher of Lausanne, Switzerland.
		Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra, Spanish Bishops' Conference
	www.al-bushra.org /hedchrch/bishops.htm (1146 words)

	Episcopal Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Roman Catholic Church, an Episcopal Conference, Conference of Bishops, or National Conference of Bishops is a conference consisting of all the bishops within a given territory.
		Episcopal conferences are generally defined by geographic borders, with all the bishops in a given country belonging to the same conference.
		Individual bishops do not relinquish their authority to the conference, and remain responsible for the governance of their respective diocese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conference_of_bishops (295 words)

	Catholic World News : Church officials explain bishops-conference rules
		VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- At a press conference in Rome today, introducing the new apostolic letter Apostolos Suos, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger explained that a statement issued by an episcopal conference cannot be considered authoritative unless the bishops adopt it unanimously, because the truths of the faith are not decided by majority votes.
		He emphasized that each bishops carries personal responsibility for the work of the episcopal conference, and that responsibility cannot be delegated to committees or staff aides.
		All of the participants at the press conference agreed that a document issued by a committee of bishops, or by the conference staff, would have "informational" value, but must be regarded as "provisional." Such documents should not be published in the name of the bishops' conference, they said.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=8156 (553 words)

	A Flock of Shepherds: National Conference of Catholic Bishops
		At the center of controversy over changes in the church and the role of the bishops in politics is the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the organization through which the bishops act on the national level.
		As members of the college of bishops, the American bishops are united with Catholic bishops around the world under the leadership of the bishop of Rome.
		The finances of the bishops' conference are complicated because there are several programs some of which are separately incorporated.
	woodstock.georgetown.edu /publications/p-flock.htm (2888 words)

	Rod Dreher on Bishops' Conference on National Review Online
		He told the audience that "this hapless bench of bishops" had failed to address the roots of the crisis, and now courage and fighting tenacity from the laity was required.
		The avuncular bishop, who is considered a right-wing fringe figure by most of his colleagues, cited the 14th-century St. Catherine of Siena, "an illiterate nun who is now a doctor of the Church," as a model.
		The bishops' document leaves unclear just what constitutes the kind of sexual abuse that will permanently strip a priest of his right to ministry, and there is a serious danger that an accused priest's due-process rights will be violated.
	www.nationalreview.com /dreher/dreher061702.asp (1117 words)

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		The Tenth Interprovincial Conference of Bishops of the Southern and Northern Provinces was held in Staten Island, New York, May 18-21, 2000.
		Bishops spoke in churches of the area on Sunday.
		During the year 2000, bishops again visited congregations under the theme “Ministry in the New Millennium.” Sermons called upon fellow members to consider the Spirit’s gifts in their individual lives and to respond by offering these gifts in service for Christ and his Church.
	www.mcsp.org /Synod2002/Bishops.doc (488 words)

	Bishops' Conference Discusses Priest Shortage
		Yet on this day the bishops were finally beginning to address one of the most important challenges facing Catholicism.
		Three Bishops wanted to discuss opening ordination to the married and the return of priests who left the active ministry to marry.
		Above them circled an airplane dragging a huge banner with the words: "Ordain women to the Roman Catholic priesthood." It is very sad to ignore half of the Catholic population for priestly consideration, not to mention the estimated 20,000 married priests whom could serve immediately.
	www.futurechurch.org /fpm/bishops.htm (813 words)

	Our Sunday Visitor: U.S. bishops’ conference evolves as hierarchy seeks collegial voice - Catholic Online
		The NCCB was the bishops’ conference, properly so called, responsible for matters pertaining to the bishops’ role as teachers and pastors of the church such as matters like doctrine, liturgy and canon law.
		Until his death in 1996, he was most influential figure in the bishops’ conference, serving as president from 1974 to 1977 and after that heading some of its most important committees.
		Although the bishops’ conference from the start has carried on programs and projects covering a broad range of issues, many people consider the peace pastoral letter, called “The Challenge of Peace,” to be the signature NCCB/USCC project.
	www.catholic.org /national/national_story.php?id=20675 (1362 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Letter from the Australian Bishops to the Catholic people of Australia
		Secondly, every five years the diocesan bishops of Australia are required to travel to Rome, where each presents a report on the state of his diocese and meets with the Pope and various officials of the Vatican.
		Thirdly, as part of the five-yearly visit of the diocesan bishops, the heads of six of the Vatican Congregations expressed the wish to meet with a representative group of the Australian bishops to discuss certain matters concerning the pastoral situation of the Church in Australia.
		During the ordinary biannual meeting of the Australian bishops from 6th to 15th April 1999, those who were present at the meeting with the Vatican representatives were able to give a fuller report to the other bishops of all that took place in the discussions.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=974 (955 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . NEWS FEATURE . U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops . November 14, 2003 \| PBS
		Bishop GREGORY (At Press Conference): Turning the corner does not mean crossing the finish line, it means turning the corner.
		Bishop UNTENER: I think we did what we had to do in order to enable the people to trust that it was being dealt with seriously.
		Now, as the bishops try to move beyond the sex abuse scandals that have so occupied their attention over the past two years, some lay groups say they are worried about a possible pullback on the sex abuse policies.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week711/news.html (1159 words)

	Breaking News, Sept. 27, 2006 Bishops conference faces budget axe
		Knowing that budget cuts are forthcoming, department heads at the bishops' conference have been hesitant to fill vacant posts, according to a conference spokesperson.
		In addition, the four full-time and one part-time positions devoted to operating the house for diocesan priests working at the bishops' conference would be maintained under the plan.
		If approved by the bishops in November, a "final plan will be developed in early 2007 for the planning and budgeting cycle of 2008," according to the budget documents.
	www.nationalcatholicreporter.org /update/bn092706.htm (726 words)

	NCCB 1995, Politics & Organization by Thomas J. Reese, S.J., USCCB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Some bishops complain that a small group of bishops run the conference, but most bishops are not willing to devote the time to committee work that these bishops do.
		All conference sessions were closed to the press and the public until 1972 when the bishops voted to open their sessions.
		The general conference rule today is that a public statement must be within the parameters of conference policy and it needs the approval of the next highest authority.
	www.americamagazine.org /reese/america/nc9505.htm (2583 words)

	The Bishops' Statement That Wasn't (This Rock: December 2002)
		The big news this time was the bishops’ acceptance of the revisions that the Holy See mandated for the child sexual abuse norms the bishops had approved at their June meeting.
		By Thursday the press was buzzing with claims that the U.S. bishops had come out with a statement against the potential war with Iraq, leaving many Catholics who supported the idea of the war wondering what their obligations were, given the bishops’ reported action.
		At the advent of the conferences, Catholic theology had established that individual bishops have a local teaching authority and that the whole episcopal college in union with the bishop of Rome has a universal teaching authority.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/2002/0212bt.asp (2190 words)

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