They remembered the Sunday last fall when a bishop arrived at the church and announced that St. Brigid's would be closed.

And America's Catholic bishops only last week announced they were finally going to get serious about opposing the death penalty.

When the bishop announced a couple of years ago that he had cancer, pilgrims began a campaign of prayer for his recovery.

Subsequently, all bishops and parish priests, to protect the souls entrusted to their guidance, announced the ban to their parishioners.

After all, bishops could not announce the correct date for Easter if they had no mathematicians to call upon.

The bishop announced he would be retiring at sixty nine years of age due to ill health and feeling unable to continue to with a fully active ministry.

The nation's bishops recently announced that they had hired a poll taker and a public relations firm to mount a new anti-abortion campaign.

That is where matters stood until early May, when the bishop announced that he was marrying the aide.

The bishops will announce their intensified campaign at a news conference scheduled to be held today in Washington.

The bishops have announced a process of listening and reflection within the church.