US bishops encourage confession, approve Seelos memorial; economic statement fails to gain approval
CWN -
November 14, 2012
By large margins, members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to
approve a statement encouraging Catholics to go to Confession during Lent (236-1
vote), to approve a statement on Sunday homilies (227-11 vote), and to add the
optional memorial of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos to the US liturgical calendar
(213-1 vote). The October 5 memorial for Blessed Seelos (1819-67), a
Bavarian-born Redemptorist who ministered in the United States, requires
additional approval from the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship. By a voice vote, the US bishops also expressed their support for the canonization cause of Dorothy Day. Vatican norms require that at least regional bishops be consulted during a sainthood cause.
A draft document on bishops and new
technologies was withdrawn, and a 134-85 vote in favor of a proposed statement
on “Work, Poverty and a Broken Economy” fell short of the two-thirds majority
necessary for approval.
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