He is a member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America in the Roman Curia and of the Board of Trustees at The Catholic University of America. As a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, he is chairman of the Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America; in the latter capacity, he led a three-bishop delegation to Haiti to assess the situation there following its 2010 earthquake. He is also chairman-elect of the Committee on Migration, chairman of the Task Force on the Spanish-language Bible, and a member of the Committee on Doctrine.