Less than three months after the formation of a controversial working group to deal with President Joe Biden, the U.S. bishops' conference has disbanded the group, which produced a public rupture among the hierarchy.
While some U.S. Catholic bishops recently signed a statement in support of LGBTQ youth, others released a statement opposing a Biden executive order extending federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people.
Faith groups and religious leaders are urging newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden to steer away from hard-line policies that would make it difficult for migrants to seek asylum.
The Vatican is more than 4,000 miles away from the White House, but on Wednesday it was much closer to the nation's second Catholic president than the leadership of the U.S. hierarchy.
