Pope Francis has declared himself a "sinner" and says the Catholic Church will “fall like a house of cards” unless it is able to focus more on the “essentials” of preaching the Gospel and less on politics and bureaucracy.
But the...
US bishops open
assembly by voting to stay the course
· 
Washington
Cardinal Donald Wuerl sings during the opening prayer of the annual spring
meeting Wednesday of the U .S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in New Orleans.
(CNS/Bob Roller)
Brian Roewe Joshua J. McElwee | Jun.
11, 2014 National Catholic Reporter
"The nation's
Catholic bishops during their annual summer assembly voted to stay the course
they have set for themselves over the last several years, focusing on issues of
religious liberty, same-sex marriage, and participation in the U.S. political
sphere.
In one of only
three public deliberations at the event, the prelates voted to renew their
efforts in addressing concerns over religious liberty, granting another
three-year term to a special bishops' committee organized on the
issue.
The bishops are
gathered in New Orleans until Friday for their spring meeting, one of two annual
plenary assemblies of the U.S. bishops' conference.
Going into the
event, many analysts and even some bishops had asked if the prelates would be
reorienting their work around the new emphases of Francis' first year as pope,
particularly his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii
Gaudium ("The Joy of the
Gospel"), and his pastoral tone.
Yet in three and a
half hours of open discussion on 17 topics Wednesday, the bishops focused more
on old business than new -- hearing updates from the lay group that advises them
on preventing sexual abuse of minors, Catholic Relief Services, and the bishops'
Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage."
[Brian Roewe is
an NCR staff writer
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