The US Bishops’ conference has voted on a change in strategy that involves placing an emphasis on reaching the religiously unaffiliated, the disaffiliated and young people.
The decision at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) 2024 fall general assembly on a new mission directive, which presents a more singular focus, will guide the conference’s work from 2025-2028.
“I really think as much as we work so hard at this we need to take up our game a notch higher and do something not exactly like the Eucharistic revival, but something very pointed on this because we know that a large group of our people are not accepting a core moral teaching of the Church,” said Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the Secretary of the USCCB who presented the new mission directive at the assembly in Baltimore.
