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	United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
		The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is an assembly of the hierarchy of the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands who jointly exercise certain pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faithful of the United States.
		The bishops themselves constitute the membership of the Conference and are served by a staff of over 350 lay people, priests, deacons, and religious located at the Conference headquarters in Washington, DC.
		The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is located in Washington, D.C. 3211 Fourth Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. Questions and comments pertaining to the administration of this website may be sent to webcoordinator@usccb.org.
	www.usccb.org /whoweare.shtml (543 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.
		By providing these links, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops assumes no responsibility for, nor does it necessarily endorse, these websites, their content, or their sponsoring organizations.
	www.usccb.org (145 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Imperative Of Courtesy, The
		Catholics with an adequate knowledge of their faith know that this does not represent genuine Catholic teaching, and they may turn to the Catechism of the Catholic Church for a full statement.
		The authority of the national bishops' conference is now being closely scrutinized because of the scandal of clerical sexual abuse and the failure of so many bishops to discipline the abusers.
		The bishops meet formally twice a year and pass resolutions on a number of matters, even as their national bureaucracy is constantly involved in issues both internal and external to the Church.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4682 (1949 words)

	Church in Crisis: Bishops struggle to fashion sex abuse policy
		In Joliet, Ill., Bishop Joseph Imesch said he was soliciting the opinions of the Catholic faithful in his diocese in preparation for the meeting in Dallas and had sent a letter to every parish council in the diocese.
		Thomas Gumbleton, auxiliary bishop of Detroit, said both individually and as a conference, Roman Catholic bishops in the United States need to be more forthright about their failures during the past 15 to 20 years and accept responsibility for them.
		While Catholics don’t appear to be leaving the church because of the scandal, O’Brien said the toll on priests’ morale and the future recruitment of priests is still an open question, as is the effect on those who have been abused.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/060702/060702j.htm (1118 words)

	United for Peace & Justice : United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Statement on Iraq
		Two months ago, Bishop Wilton Gregory, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote President George Bush to welcome efforts to focus the world's attention on Iraq's refusal to comply with several United Nations resolutions over the past eleven years, and its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.
		We welcome the fact that the United States has worked to gain new action by the UN Security Council to ensure that Iraq meets its obligation to disarm.
		We invite others, particularly Catholic lay people -- who have the principal responsibility to transform the social order in light of the Gospel -- to continue to discern how best to live out their vocation to be "witnesses and agents of peace and justice" (Catechism, #2442).
	www.unitedforpeace.org /article.php?id=218 (1764 words)

	The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It will thus be an especially welcome occasion when from November 12-15 the annual Fall meeting of the Catholic Bishops of the United States take place in Washington, D.C. This meeting always provides a forum for important matters of common interest to Bishops throughout the country to be considered.
		Surely this year a common concern of all the Bishops — in formal and informal meetings — will be the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11 and all that continues to unfold in the wake of that day.
		Throughout the meeting the Bishops are reminded of their solidarity with the Holy Father by the daily presence of his personal representative in the United States, Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, the Apostolic Nuncio.
	www.archstl.org /commoffice/2001/columns/011109.htm (1800 words)

	Diocese of Bridgeport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bishop Basil H. Losten (second from left) of the Ukrainian Diocese of Stamford was among the 300 bishops from across the U.S. On Thursday afternoon, Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressed the media at a press conference.
		All active members of the Conference -- that is active diocesan or eparchial bishops, coadjutors, or auxiliaries in the United States or the U.S. Virgin Islands, or those equivalent to diocesan bishops according to canon law -- have a deliberative vote at plenary assemblies in most circumstances.
		Conference matters shall normally be decided by voice vote, with a simple majority of those present and voting the typical threshold for approval.
	www.bridgeportdiocese.com /june.shtml (5061 words)

	United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - Faith and Values.com
		The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is an assembly of the hierarchy of the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands who jointly exercise certain pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faithful of the United States.
		Delegates of the National Council of Synagogues and the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs met at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, December 11.
		Finalizing a text on the long-awaited study of The Church as Koinonia of Salvation: its Structures and Ministries was the primary task of the recent meeting of the Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue in the United States.
	www.faithandvalues.com /channels/usccb.asp (436 words)

	USCCB - (CCC) - About Us
		Developed by the USCCB Committee on Vocations, "Priestly Life and Vocations Summit: Fishers of Men" is a new program meant to renew priests' sense of vocational fulfillment and to encourage them to draw on that satisfaction and invite other men to pursue the priesthood.
		Since 1905, the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States of America has been helping this "invisible church" by providing funds to build churches and ensure the presence of priests and missionaries; foster vacations; educate children in the Catholic faith; and reach out to others through evangelization and social programs.
		This segment looks at the efforts of the Tekakwitha Conference and the USCCB Ad Hoc Committee on Native American Catholics to help Native Americans reclaim their cultural and spiritual heritage – to help them become both fully native and fully Catholic – and to empower them to minister to their own people.
	www.atlanticvideo.com /clients/ccom (1200 words)

	US \| Catholic Relief Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Catholic Relief Services is owned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and has a Board of Directors comprised of 12 Bishops elected by the full body of Bishops.
		Catholic Campus Ministry Association (CCMA) promotes the mission of the Church in higher education as presented in the pastoral letter, Empowered by the Spirit (1985), where the US Bishops emphasized the key aspects of campus ministry, including "appropriating the faith, forming the Christian conscience, and educating for justice."
		It was founded in 1920 at the request of the Bishops in the United States who had seen the work accomplished by the many separate Catholic women's groups during World War I and urged them to unite their efforts by forming a federation.
	www.catholicrelief.org /about_us/who_we_are/global_partners/us/domestic.cfm (1502 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Reverend Monsignor William P. Fay heads the USCCB as the General Secretary, where its main function is to exercise certain pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faith of the United States.
		The bishops deem capital punishment for "its sheer inhumanity and its absolute finality, as well as concern about its inequitable use and an imperfect legal system that has condemned innocent people." Both abortion and the death penalty are judged as inhumane and thus not tolerable under the Catholic faith.
		The bishops are working for better conditions and treatment of all workers, especially those who "come to the United States fleeing oppression and destitution and make significant contributions to our country." The Catholic Bishops are working towards better conditions and more benefits so as to protect the individual rights of humans.
	users.wfu.edu /stevsm1/lee.html (2039 words)

	National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference
		The Conference of Bishops has been addressing the evil of sexual abuse of minors by a priest and, at its June 1992 meeting, established five principles to be followed (cf.
		Diocesan/eparchial bishops and major superiors of clerical institutes or their delegates will meet periodically to coordinate their roles concerning the issue of allegations made against a cleric member of a religious institute ministering in a diocese/eparchy.
		It is to be reviewed in two years by the Conference of Bishops with the advice of the National Review Board created in Article 9 to ensure its effectiveness in resolving the problems of sexual abuse of minors by priests.
	www.vermontcatholic.org /SexualMisconduct/charterFinal.htm (3700 words)

	United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops
		In evangelical Christianity, a conference is a series of meetings where topics related to Jesus Christ, the Bible, and the church are discussed.Often new books and other media are present for sale in them and original research may be presented.
		The bishop's role is typically called the " episcopacy ", because the word"bishop" is derived ultimately from the Greek word episkopos (επισκοπος), which literally means overseer or foreman.
		The bishop's statedduties entail administration; the bishop is described as the "steward of God." (Titus 1:7, KJV) Those duties also include teaching; thebishop is enjoined to "hold fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhortand to convince the gainsayers." (Titus 1:9)
	www.altvetmed.com /face/29269-united-states-conference-of-catholic-bishops.html (1430 words)

	Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Office of Social Development & World Peace, ...
		The Committee met before your speech at the United Nations, but I thought it was important that I express our serious questions about the moral legitimacy of any preemptive, unilateral use of military force to overthrow the government of Iraq.
		The United States and the international community have two grave moral obligations: to protect the common good against any Iraqi threats to peace and to do so in a way that conforms with fundamental moral norms.
		Would the United States and the international community commit to the arduous, long-term task of ensuring a just peace or would a post-Saddam Iraq continue to be plagued by civil conflict and repression, and continue to serve as a destabilizing force in the region?
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/bush/bishops.htm (1038 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The total Catholic school student enrollment for the 2004-2005 academic year is about 2.5 million and the student-teacher ratio is 15 to 1.
		Catholic schools produce students strongly dedicated to their faith, values, families, and communities by providing an intellectually stimulating environment rich in spiritual, character, and moral development.
		In the 1972 pastoral message concerning Catholic education, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops stated: "Education is one of the most important ways by which the Church fulfills its commitment to the dignity of the person and building of community.
	www.gop.gov /Committeecentral/bills/hres23.asp (244 words)

	Welcome to USCCB Publishing
		Two new resources are now available to assist you in using the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults.
		Take a look inside the Roman Curia in a series of Catholic News Service interviews with heads of Vatican offices including those who head the office on charities, Church doctrine, evangelization, culture and interreligious dialogue, and liturgy.
		Catholic News Service (CNS), the oldest and largest religious news service in the world, is a leading source of news for Catholic print and electronic media across the globe.
	www.usccbpublishing.org (442 words)

	National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and the United States Catholic Conference (USCC)
		Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston, President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement welcoming the presentation of "Dominus Iesus: On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ" and the Church by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
		At their semi-annual meeting in November 1998, the Catholic Bishops of the United States issued a pastoral statement exhorting Catholics and all Americans to make the cause of human life a priority, particularly life threatened by abortion and euthanasia.
		It was agreed that the statement be shared with the episcopal conferences in America as an effort to inform the bishops of the discussions in the meeting.
	www.saint-mike.org /library/NCCB/NCCB.html (1279 words)

	PetersNet: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Essential Norms for Diocesan/Eparchial Policies Dealing with ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The majority of the review board members will be lay persons who are not in the employ of the diocese/eparchy; but at least one member should be a priest, and at least one member should have particular expertise in the treatment of the sexual abuse of minors.
		These provisions may include a request by the priest or deacon for dispensation from the obligations of holy orders and the loss of the clerical state, or a request by his diocesan/eparchial bishop for dismissal from the clerical state even without the consent of the priests or deacons.
		If the penalty of dismissal from the clerical state has not been applied (e.g., for reasons of advanced age or infirmity), the offender is to lead a life of prayer and penance.
	www.petersnet.net /browse/4291.htm (1348 words)

	Press Room - Statement from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops On Roper v. Simmons
		Statement from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops On Roper v.
		The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which for 25 years has been calling for an end to the use of the death penalty, is very encouraged that the Supreme Court has recognized that executing juvenile offenders is indeed cruel and unusual.
		Almost three years ago, the Court concluded that the execution of persons with mental retardation cannot be reconciled with the constitutional guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.
	www.thejusticeproject.org /press/statements/simmons-catholic-bishops.html (173 words)

	The Roman Catholic Church's Statements on Applied Ethics
		United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - Abortion and the Supreme Court: Advancing the Culture of Death (2000)
		United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - Declaration on Abortion (1970)
		United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - Confronting a Culture of Violence (1994)
	ethicscenter.nd.edu /resources/rc.shtml (1104 words)

	Respect Life: Statement of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
		This year, two federal courts and the president of the United States took steps to redefine the practice of medicine for the next century.
		On April 10, the president of the United States vetoed legislation to ban partial-birth abortions.
		The state may still protect young, able-bodied people from committing suicide, because society has a strong "interest" in protecting their lives.
	www.stignatiussf.org /uscc_respect_life.htm (897 words)

	ILW.COM - Testimony of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Let me state at the outset of my testimony that the Catholic bishops are not opposed to the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security.
		They, along with the many other legal short-term workers, students, and visitors to the United States, currently depend on the INS to operate efficiently and with justice in adjudicating their immigration benefits, which include such items as adjustments of status, naturalization, employment authorization documents, and other such service-related instruments.
		The U.S. Catholic bishops recommend against the transfer of the entirety of the functions of the INS to the new Department of Homeland Security.
	www.ilw.com /lawyers/immigdaily/News/2002,0702-house-appleby.shtm (3405 words)

	Catholic World News : US bishops' lawyers reject voter guide
		It is bishops in communion with the successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome.
		The central issue the bishops ought to be dealing with is the proliferation of heresy, heresy that is spread at both the parish and diocesan level by deceitful clerics and ignorant lay “ministers.”
		The people who are misusing Catholic teaching are the very bishops who will not abide by it, i.e., obey it for the sake of their sheep.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=31706 (3001 words)

	Bishops' Conference Chairmen Support Farm Worker Proposal
		Cardinal McCarrick is the chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Domestic Policy Committee; Bishop Wenski chairs the USCCB Migration Committee.
		We write on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in general support of the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2003 (S. As introduced, the bipartisan measure would provide a path to permanent residency and citizenship for a number of undocumented farm workers.
		As you may know, the U.S. Catholic bishops have long advocated for the rights of farm workers, both workers residing in the United States and migrant workers from Mexico and other nations who toil in our agricultural fields.
	www.cacatholic.org /supfarmwrkr.html (1176 words)

	Catholic World News : Cardinal McCarrick reports on document about Catholic politicians
		The task force is developing a "Reader on Catholics in Public Life" with excerpts from papal, conciliar and USCCB statements on the responsibilities of Catholics in public life.
		McCarrick: bishops aren't supposed to "hope" to protect the unborn; they are supposed to willing lay down their lives for Christ and His teachings.
		It is awe inspiring to see how modern bishops obfuscate clear Catholic teaching by engaging in endless committee meetings and consultations with "experts." The simple act of a Catholic bishop defending the Holy Eucharist from profanation by sacrilegious heretics has been transformed by these geniuses into a maelstrom of controversy.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=33529 (994 words)

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