USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) - Media Talk: What People Are Asking About

Media Talk: What People Are Asking About

The USCCB Office of Media Relations received numerous media requests daily, with reporters asking about a variety of topics, often whatever is most talked about in the news. This page offers materials, explanations, reflections about church-related issues that are in the news, some based on questions the USCCB has received from reporters.

National Vocation Awareness Week 2010 -- Sister Mary Joanna Ruhland, RSM
National Vocation Awareness Week 2010 -- Fr. Leo Walsh
National Vocation Awareness Week 2010 -- Brother Robert Metzger
Comparison of Abortion Language in Hyde Amendment, Federal Employees Health Benefits and Nelson/Hatch/Casey Amendment
Opening Statements from November 23 Conference Call on Health Care Reform
John Carr, executive director of Justice, Peace and Human Development  |   En Español

Kathy Saile, Director of Domestic Social Development  |   En Español

Richard Doerflinger, Associate Director of Pro-Life Activities  |   En Español

Kevin Appleby, Director of Migration and Refugee Policy  |   En Español
What Does the Stupak Amendment Really Do?
Backgrounder for Recognitio of Change in Adult Catechism
Bible Is for Catholics -- By Mary Elizabeth Sperry | En Español
Caritas in Veritate: An Initial Outline -- by John Carr
Encyclical Preview: Benedict XVI on Economics and Ethics in a Time of Crisis -- by John Carr
Pope Benedict XVI's trip to the Holy Land and American Catholicism -- by Father James Massa
CARA on Pew
When an archbishop is made a cardinal
Knock three times!
Warnings of Sexual Abuse in the 1950s
Number of Hispanics Entering Ministry Continues to Grow
How many people are joining the Catholic Church this Easter?
Vocations and the Economic Crisis