The Growing Rift Between the Vatican and USCCB, by Mark Lambert

There seem to have been two main stories which have emerged from this event. One is the continuing insistence on the pre-eminence of abortion, with U.S. bishops approving a voting guide affirming this, despite resistance from Pope Francis’s favoured US prelates, Cardinals Tobin, McElroy and Cupich, who have repeatedly attempted to overturn this.

The second story is the open clash between USCCB president Archbishop Timothy Broglio and the papal nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the latter who, two weeks prior to the conference, gave an interview in America Magazinewhere he made a number of rather stark criticisms of the Catholic Church in the USA. ….

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