The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP) announces the election of three new members to its national Leadership Team. The three were nominated and elected by the membership during AUSCP’s 15th Annual Assembly, held in June 2026 in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Wisdom Wednesday | July 15th
Human rights dominate our search for wisdom this week: How ICE uses crowd control weapons; how teachers have First Amendment rights, how Islamophobia roiled a Texas election; and the SSPX seeks canonical rights. We begin with a call to end the silence about Gaza from Father John Heagle.
Justice Bulletin Board | Biblical Justice and Undocumented Immigrants
Those who are just must be kind — Wisdom 12: 19
AUSCP Charts a Path of Broad Fraternity, Adopts New Strategic Plan at 15th Annual Assembly
Closing its 15th Annual Assembly in June, the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP) unveiled a bold new vision for the organization’s future and adopted a fresh multi-year Strategic Plan. Both are aimed at deepening the association’s synodal mission and broadening its reach among priests across the United States.
Association of U.S. Catholic Priests Concludes 15th Annual Assembly in St. Louis
Centered on the theme “Building the Future: Church, Priesthood, and Global Engagement,” the
assembly brought together ordained priests and lay Friends to deliberate on structural renewal, global
migration, and the evolving role of pastoral leadership within a modern, relational Church.
A prisoner of conscience is dying, and the world is silent
“Silence is not always golden. Often, it is simply complicity with injustice. This is certainly the case for Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, a prisoner of conscience near death in an Israeli prison.”
A British Catholic’s open letter to the President of the United States
Faith, Mr President, cannot be coerced, silenced, sued in a courtroom or bombed to destruction (or back to the stone ages). It cannot be manufactured in south-east Asia, Silicon Valley or JPL Pasadena.
Justice Bulletin Board | Suggestions for Living Laudato Si’
We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now — Romans 8:22
Wisdom Wednesday | July 8th
Welcome to our post-Independence Day collection of news and views. It is Summertime for many, including Pope Leo XIV. We will search for wisdom in this time of hot weather and high water, and uncertainty about the climate.