The nation’s Catholic bishops continue to signal their hardline opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.
The members of therounded out their leadership bench during the last day of public sessions of their fall annual meeting in Baltimore, which concludes with private meetings Thursday.
The votes came a day after the bishops elected as their new president Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services. Broglio is also seen as more of a culture warrior than Pope Francis, though Broglio has dismissed the idea of any “dissonance” between the two. The plan also includes using parish bulletins and social media to share main ideas from the lengthy document.
Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, a Francis appointee, said that bishops need a statement that's relevant amid the shaken confidence in democracy following the U.S. Capitol riot and in the wake of Dobbs and defeats for abortion opponents in votes on five state ballot measures. “It’s irresponsible to issue an old teaching and suggest the church has nothing new to say when so much of this context has changed,” he said.
Francis, while also opposing both in keeping with church teaching, has used his papacy to emphasize a wider agenda of bringing mercy to those at the margins, such as migrants and other poor. The Vatican said in 2021 the church cannot bless gay unions because God “cannot bless sin," but Francis has made outreach to the church's LGBTQ members a hallmark of his papacy. As recently as last Friday, Francis met with the Rev.
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