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The document released this week by the Vatican on the pastoral meaning of blessings insists that marriage is a union of one man and one woman in lifelong fidelity and openness to children, said Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester.

His Official Biography From Vatican News Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, was born at Marktl am Inn, Diocese of Passau (Germany) on 16 April 1927 (Holy Saturday) and was baptised on the same day.

Most Reverend Robert Vasa, bishop of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, has appointed Dr. Adrian Peterson to the position of Superintendent of Catholic Schools.

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Bishop Robert McElroy has announced that Kathleen Domingo will be the new executive director of the California Catholic Conference.  Currently Senior Director of the Office of Life, Justice and Peace in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Mrs. Domingo will be the first woman executive director in the history of the Conference.

Thus, effective immediately, in accord with the injunction issued by the Supreme Court, I allow any pastor to make a local determination about the prudence and safety of opening for indoor worship this weekend, February 6-7. You have my permission to do so.

President Joe Biden’s wide-ranging executive order to extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people exceeds the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2020 ruling on the issue in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops’ committees.