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ADVISORY

TO: Members of the News Media
FROM: USCCB Department of Communications
DATE: June 10, 2008

The spring meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will be held June 12 through June 14 at:

Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress
One Grand Cypress Blvd.
Orlando, Florida 32836
(407) 239-1234

General sessions will be held in the Grand Cypress Ballroom

Media Center: Regency Hall, in Regency 1

Staff phone numbers: 407-238-4334; 407-238-4335

Phones available for use by press: 407-238-4336; 407-238-4337; 407-238-4338; Fax: 407-238-4340

Media Interview Desk (located outside of Media Center): 407-238-4339

The agenda will include a presentation on the recent Pew U.S. Religious Landscape Survey and the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) research on "Sacraments Today: Belief and Practice Among U.S. Catholics."

Other agenda items include a proposed policy statement on embryonic stem cell research, a progress update on the Causes and Context study of sexual abuse by clerics by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, and the new translation of the Proper of the Seasons of the Roman Missal.

Sessions are open to media on Thursday, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., and Friday 9 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. The rest of the meeting includes executive session, regional meetings and an afternoon of prayer and reflection.