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Blase Cardinal Cupich of Chicago. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 19, 2021 / 15:05 pm (CNA). The archdioceses of both Philadelphia and Chicago have instructed their clerics not to assist parishioners seeking religious exempti...
U.S. bishops from Region 13 walk in procession to pray at the tomb of St. Paul after concelebrating Mass at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Feb. 12, 2020, during their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican to report on the status of their dioceses. (CNS/Paul Haring) Journalists who cover the Catholic Church face a hurdle in that most of the important decisions are made in secret. Personnel decisions are almost all made behind closed doors; a new bishop does not even know he is a candidate until he has been chosen. Even when a decision is public, as when the bi...