NC Reporter
(Thomas Reese) As the U.S. bishops gather in Baltimore for their annual fall meeting this week, they will be deciding their priorities until the end of this decade. Will these priorities sync with those of Pope Francis or will the bishops continue on as if the pope is not taking the church in a new direction? At their spring meeting in St. Louis, the bishops approved a working draft of the bishops’ conference’s strategic priorities for their 2017-2020 planning cycle by a vote of 165 to 14 with (...)