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NCR Podcast: Vatican conference on nuclear disarmament; recap of USCCB plenary meeting
This week, Joshua J. McElwee, NCR Vatican correspondent, reports from a recent high-profile conference at the Vatican on nuclear disarmament. He’ll explain what Pope Francis said about nuclear weapons, and whether the world is listening to Catholic leaders. Later, NCR’s Michael Sean Winters and Heidi Schlumpf are back with a recap of the bishops meeting in Baltimore earlier this week. They talk about what election results mean for the future of U.S. church leadership. The conversation also touches on some noteworthy action items from the meeting, including the vote to create a pastoral plan on marriage and family life.
Show Notes
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En Hollywood también se celebrará la Jornada Mundial de los Pobres
En ocasión de la primera Jornada Mundial de los Pobres, instituida por el Papa Francisco, diversas organizaciones que sirven a los indigentes y marginados organizan una Misa y una procesión eucarística en Hollywood.
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PEREGRINACIÓN DE LAS IMÁGENES DE LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE
La Arquidiócesis Católica de Los Ángeles informa que a partir del 21 octubre en la Regional pastoral de Santa Bárbara inicia la acostumbrada peregrinación de las imágenes de la Virgen de Guadalupe y San Juan Diego por varias parroquias de sus cinco regionales pastorales.
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Report: US bishops choose delegates for 2018 Synod
Meeting in Baltimore for their annual fall assembly, the U.S. bishops have selected their choices for delegates to next year’s Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment, multiple sources have reported to CNA.
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New program for baptism preparation offered online
In early December, the archdiocesan Office for Worship will launch a new program (offered in both Spanish and English) to help better prepare parents and godparents of infants for the sacrament of baptism.
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Black Catholics in today’s Church
“Growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, Catholicism was all around me,” recalled Anderson Shaw on a recent early November morning. The director of the African American Catholic Center for Evangelization was sitting behind a desk in his small office in St. Eugene’s rectory in South Los Angeles. “Although my mother was a devout Southern Baptist — she read the Bible every day from front to back ’til the day she died — she sent me to Catholic school to get a better education.”
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First ‘Alta-Baja’ Bishops Meeting Connects U.S. And Mexico
Three archbishops and nine bishops representing at least 13 million Catholics from Sacramento to Ensenada have resurrected their “Alta-Baja” friendship, paving the way to potentially working together in the future.
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Bishops voice support of migrants, worries over ‘poisoning rhetoric’
The longest and most passionate discussion on the first day of the fall assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 13 focused on immigrants, on how to help them but also how to drive home the point that they, too, are our brothers and sisters and should not be demonized.
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One-hundred years of God’s love in America
As I write this week, I am in Baltimore attending the annual meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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US bishops to issue statement on need for immigration reform
As the conclusion of a lengthy discussion on migration, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops decided Monday to draft a statement from their president expressing the need for humane and just immigration reform.