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| Bishop Soto, Chairman, Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church |
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The Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church pursues the goal of making diversity and its implications more recognized and understood among church leaders—clergy, religious, and laity. This is urgently needed given the profound demographic shift that the Church is currently undergoing. Knowledge, attitudes, and skills that effectively foster unity in diversity must be nurtured among our leadership and the faithful in general. More | En Español
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The Beauty of Faith: Using Christian Art to Spread Good News Over 2,000 years, Christian art has expressed the truth of the Catholic Faith for generations of the faithful. Learn the language of art to make visible the mysteries of Scripture and traditions through paintings, sculpture, mosaics, stained glass, poetry, and sacred music. Discover art as a visual Gospel that can guide, nourish, and strengthen our daily witness to the Gospel today.
Excerpt from Synodal Document of Pope Benedict XVI on the Word of God The value of culture for the life of humanity Saint John’s proclamation that the Word became flesh reveals the inseparable bond between God’s word and the human words by which he communicates with us. In this context the Synod Fathers considered the relationship between the word of God and culture. God does not reveal himself in the abstract, but by using languages, imagery and expressions that are bound to different cultures. This relationship has proved fruitful, as the history of the Church abundantly testifies. Today it is entering a new phase due to the spread of the Gospel and its taking root within different cultures, as well as more recent developments in the culture of the West. It calls in the first place for a recognition of the importance of culture as such for the life of every man and woman. The phenomenon of culture is, in its various aspects, an essential datum of human experience. “Man lives always according to a culture which is properly his, and which in turn creates among persons a bond which is properly theirs, one which determines the inter-human and social character of human existence”.[354] More
National and Regional Hispanic Catholic Ministry Organizational Initiatives: An Assessment
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The Mandate
The Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church assists the bishops in instilling the vision of Encuentro 2000 and Ecclesia in America throughout the Church by working collaboratively with all the committees of the Conference and with bishops and their dioceses to bring Catholics from various culturally diverse communities into a fuller participation in the faith, life, and evangelizing mission of the Church. The committee especially works to promote an awareness of cultural diversity within all the committees and offices of the USCCB.
This mandate includes the following responsibilities: Pastoral care of Hispanic Catholics, African American Catholics, Native American Catholics, Asian Catholics, African Catholics, Pacific Islander Catholics, Catholic migrants and refugees and people on the move.