MENU
En Espanol
Search
Blog - Posts from 2017
Dec 28, 2017, 12:00 PM
“Mindful of its duty to be the advocate for those who hunger and thirst for justice's sake, the Church cannot remain silent about the racial injustices in society and its own structures. Our concern over racism follows, as well, from our…
Dec 17, 2017, 11:00 AM
(CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Today, December 17, is Pope Francis’ birthday! The USCCB Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development maintains a Pope Francis Quotes collection, which is updated several times each year. It…
Dec 12, 2017, 4:34 PM
In 1999, St. John Paul II made the celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe a Feast day of the Church in all America. Today, we reflect on this rich tradition and how it invites us to pray and act together. On three occasions in December of 1531,…
Dec 5, 2017, 3:53 PM
Thirty years ago, in late December of 1987, St. John Paul II promulgated his encyclical Sollicitudo rei Socialis, or On Social Concern. Reflecting on Blessed Paul VI's Populorum Progressio on its twentieth anniversary, John Paul called…
Nov 29, 2017, 12:00 PM
“[The country] has yet to solve the question of race; that has been America's tragic flaw. We have never really come to grips with race. We went through the civil-rights movement, but here we are in 1993 with young people who never…
Nov 20, 2017, 2:00 PM
Persecution of Christians and other religious minorities is not a abstract concern for me. It is deeply personal. Two years ago in Erbil, Iraq, I looked out the window of my hotel to see tents packed together on the grounds of a chapel. …
Nov 17, 2017, 8:27 PM
A delegation from the Archdiocese of New Orleans visited their government representatives to lobby for issues important to Catholics in Louisiana and across the nation at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering.
Pope Francis frequently points…
Nov 9, 2017, 12:00 PM
Earlier this year, Proud Ground was invited to attend the U.S. World Meeting of Popular Movements in Modesto, CA. During this event, people from all over the world came together to discuss and brainstorm ways that they can work together to heal the…
Nov 6, 2017, 1:00 PM
The first paragraph of the U.S. bishops’ statement, Communities of Salt and Light: Reflections on Parish Social Mission, states: “The parish is where the Church lives…where the gospel is proclaimed…where believers are…
Nov 1, 2017, 11:00 AM
November 2017 is the fifteenth anniversary of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ pastoral reflection, A Place at the Table: A Catholic Recommitment to Overcome Poverty and to Respect the Dignity of All God’s Children (also in Spanish). The 2002…
© Copyright 2019, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. All Rights Reserved.
