VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Sep. 15, 2015
VATICAN CITY The Vatican has officially released the full list of participants, auditors and collaborators for October’s hotly anticipated global meeting of Catholic bishops on family life.
Among the details: Pope Francis has personally appointed four extra U.S. bishops to take part in the proceedings, giving the American delegation a total of eight prelates able to vote.
Those eight from the U.S. will be part of 279 bishops, prelates and priests announced as voting participants, coming from countries and regions all over the world.
The new U.S. prelates appointed by Francis: New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich, and Youngstown, Ohio Bishop George Murry.
The four Americans will join four others already elected by the U.S. bishops’ conference: Louisville, Ky., Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, Cardinal Daniel Di Nardo, and Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez.
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