SAN DIEGO (CNS) — San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy is challenging U.S. Catholics to take an active role in combating “the scourge of anti-Islamic prejudice.” “We are witnessing in the United States a new nativism, which the American Catholic community must reject and label for the religious bigotry which it is,” he said in … Continue reading INTERFAITH: Bishop challenges Catholics to combat ‘ugly tide of anti-Islamic bigotry’
INTERFAITH: National Catholic-Muslim dialogue launched
from the USCCB WASHINGTON—Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago will serve as the first Catholic co-chair of a new National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue, sponsored by the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Archbishop Cupich's tenure as dialogue co-chair will begin January 1, 2017. The bishops' ecumenical and interreligious … Continue reading INTERFAITH: National Catholic-Muslim dialogue launched