BALTIMORE
Bishop William Lori, Chairman of the National Committee for freedom of religion, condemn the policies of the federal and state laws which he said interfered with the Church
(Patrick Semansky/Associated Press)-Archbishop Timothy Dolan, New York, the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, spoke at the annual autumn Conference in Baltimore, the Assembly Monday, November 14, 2011.
In Illinois, officials stopped working with Catholic Charities foster care adoption and placement after 40 years as the Agency refused to recognise new Civil Union law. Illinois Bishop has sued the State but on Monday said they would stop fighting the law and no longer provides a State-funded services.
In New York, the bishops, together with the leader of the Orthodox Jews and others, complain that the exclusion of religion this year