In the 1880s, when the bishops of the United States founded The Catholic University of America and obtained a papal charter for it, they intended it to help fulfill their responsibility to teach and promote Catholic faith. The University was governed by a Board of Trustees consisting mainly of bishops and was managed by clerics chosen by that Board. Continue Reading »
The bishops of the United States created Catholic Relief Services (CRS) as an agency for the charitable activities of the US Catholic Church in foreign countries. In 1986, CRS began an HIV/AIDS program. Part of the stated policy of that program is to supply full and accurate information about . . . . Continue Reading »
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