The big story of the past seven days
✣ Vatican intervenes at US bishops’ assembly
What happened?
Late afternoon on Sunday, the day before US bishops gathered in Baltimore, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the bishops’ conference president, received a letter from Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, asking the American bishops to delay voting on matters of abuse until after a February abuse summit in Rome. Cardinal DiNardo relayed news of the intervention to a stunned assembly of bishops on the first morning of the conference.
