My brothers, our beautiful task is to continue to tell the Catholic story, to reveal Jesus to our people — to place their hands in his hand so they can walk by his light and follow him on the path to eternity, to the love that never ends.
Brothers, let us have only that desire — to be where God wants us to be, and to do what God is calling us to do.
The challenge we have is to understand how the Church should carry out her mission in an America that is now highly secularized.
That’s the reality. The question is: what can we do about it. What is the best way to help our people to live and work and minister as Catholics in this moment? How can we help our people to raise their children and engage with their neighbors and the culture? As a Church, how should we evangelize and go about the task of striving for justice and the renewal of our society?
2020 was a long and challenging year for all of us in the Catholic Church. In my USCCB presidential address, I shared my personal reflections to my brother bishops.
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Archbishop Gomez joined Pope Francis and faithful across the globe in praying the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for peace in our world, especially in Ukraine and Russia.
Now is the time to begin the work of building a post-Roe America. It is a time for healing wounds and repairing social divisions; it is a time for reasoned reflection and civil dialogue, and for coming together to build a society and economy that supports marriages and families, and where every woman has the support and resources she needs to bring her child into this world in love.
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I look forward to working with President Biden and his administration, and the new Congress. As with every administration, there will be areas where we agree and work closely together and areas where we will have principled disagreement and strong opposition.
"We are praying today for our nation in this time of transition. We offer our prayers, especially, for our new president and his family. Let us ask that God be with our new president and grant him wisdom and courage to lead this great nation."
On November 12, 2019, Archbishop Gómez was elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In first substantial interview following the election, Archbishop Gomez spoke with Crisis Magazine.