Chieko Noguchi - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:38:50 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Chieko Noguchi - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Bishops' working group on Biden disbanded https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/02/22/working-group-on-biden-disbanded/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:55:31 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=133819 Less than three months after the formation of a controversial working group to deal with President Joe Biden, the nation's Catholic bishops have disbanded the group, which produced a public rupture among the U.S. hierarchy in its approach toward the nation's second Catholic president. According to two bishops familiar with the process, the work of Read more

Bishops' working group on Biden disbanded... Read more]]> Less than three months after the formation of a controversial working group to deal with President Joe Biden, the nation's Catholic bishops have disbanded the group, which produced a public rupture among the U.S. hierarchy in its approach toward the nation's second Catholic president.

According to two bishops familiar with the process, the work of the group is now complete and the group's proposal to produce a document on the question of Communion will be addressed by the U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine.

Chieko Noguchi, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, declined to comment.

The group, originally announced on Nov. 17, met virtually on two occasions. As NCR first reported last month, its 10-person committee did not include Biden's local bishops in Washington, D.C., or his home state of Delaware.

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