U.S. Catholic bishops begin their fall meeting Monday and will be electing new leaders — a vote that may signal whether they want to be more closely
<p class="MsoNormal">This year's plenary meeting of the country's Catholic bishops will probably not garner the same attention it did in 2021, when the prelates were expected to debate whether to deny Communion to pro-choice politicians. <o:p></o:p></p>
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In recent weeks it had become a foregone conclusion that the Democrats were going to post big losses in the midterms. Some of that is pinned to current issues like the rate of inflation or President Joe Biden’s relative unpopularity. But it’s also just the way that American politics today seems to work: the party in power loses seats halfway through a term. What are we to make of the fact that that didn’t happen, or that we didn’t see anything the protests and violence that ensued after the 2020 election? By Jim McDermott
Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Military Services, who oversees Catholic ministries to the U.S. armed forces, has been elected as the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The archbishop of Baltimore, William Lori, was elected as vice president. Broglio, 70, was elected from a field of 10 candidates. He will succeed Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, who assumed the post in 2019. Usually the election of a new USCCB president is a formality, with the bishops elevating the conference’s vice president to the post. But this year’s election was wide open because the incumbent VP Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron will turn 75 soon, making him ineligible to serve.