UNITED STATES
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Statements on preaching and ways that bishops can respond using new technologies to modern-day challenges to their teaching authority are among the items the U.S. bishops will consider when they gather in Baltimore for their annual fall assembly.
Set for Nov. 12-15, the assembly also will consider a statement on work and the economy proposed by the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development as a way to raise the profile of growing poverty and the struggles that unemployed people are experiencing.
The document on preaching that the bishops are to consider encourages preachers to connect the Sunday homily with people’s daily lives. …
The bishops will devote time to discuss whether to revise the norms governing fundraising as covered by Canon 1262 in church law. The discussion is expected to focus on the need to clarify when a bishop would have to approve any appeal to raise funds based on from where the fundraising appeal originated.
Existing norms on fundraising were approved unanimously by the bishops in 2002 and received approval from the Vatican, or “recognitio,” in 2007. …
The bishops also will vote on a new treasurer and chairmen of five committees. Those elected will begin three-year terms during the bishops’ 2013 fall general assembly.
The bishops will choose a new treasurer; the two candidates are Bishop Robert J. Cunningham of Syracuse, N.Y. and Bishop Kevin J. Farrell of Dallas. The treasurer serves as chairman of the Committee on Budget and Finance.
New chairmen of the committees on Consecrated Life and Vocations, Divine Worship, Domestic Justice and Human Development, Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, and Migration also will be chosen.
Members of the boards of the Catholic Legal and Immigration Network, Inc. and Catholic Relief Services also will be elected.
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