USCCB plans, priorities range from health insurance to vocations plan

Published: 2004-11-16

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops Nov. 15 overwhelmingly approved a set of priorities and plans for the offices of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for the next year that includes such new efforts as creating a national strategy on vocations and developing materials to explain the moral case for the nation to cover the uninsured. The priorities and plans, which passed 270-16 on the first day of the bishops' annual fall general meeting, included mostly ongoing programs of USCCB committees and staff offices. A few of the items are new projects on the agenda for the coming year and beyond. They included an assortment of intermittent activities such as their publishing office plan to provide materials for the international observance of World Youth Day, which takes place every two or three years. Other items are likely to be one-time efforts, such as producing materials for the 25th anniversary of a pastoral letter on racism, planned by the Secretariat for African-American Catholics.

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