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Pilgrimage Planning Workshops – December 16
2025-12-16 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online
We will gather monthly for Pilgrimage training and toolkit workshops, connecting Catholics across the country as we plan for Pilgrimages of Hope for Creation in our local places and spaces!

March 18: Planning Pilgrimages and Network Building
April 15: Front-line Community Collaboration (90 min)
May 20: Planning a Pilgrimage: Nuts and Bolts
June 24: Catechesis: Responding to the Cry of the Earth, and Cry of the Poor
July 22: Growing Network and Impact: Gathering Pilgrims and Next Steps
August 19: Working with the Media
September 16: Group Sharing
October 21: Celebrating our Pilgrimages and Impact!
November 18: Next Steps: Continuing Along the Way
December 16: An Advent Spiritual Reflection of Pilgrimages of Hope for Creation

Please join these workshops live for engaging conversation, creative breakout rooms, phenomenal tools, and energizing examples! Most are 60 min, April will be 90. If you are unable to make the live time, please still register, and the recordings will be uploaded to the website soon afterwards.

Pilgrimage Planning Workshops – November 18
2025-11-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Online

Climate Change and Migration: Two Interconnected Crises
2025-11-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
(All who register will receive a link to the recording.)
The immigration crisis and the climate crisis are interconnected. Climate change is one of the driving push factors of global migration as weather related disasters (hurricanes, drought, flooding), and sea level rise make large swaths of land unusable and undermine the lives and dignity of small farmers and farmworkers and impact many national economies. Our immigrant brothers and sisters who are seeking a new life because of climate change impacts need our support.
In this webinar we will explore some of these climate push factors impacting global migration, how Catholic Social Teaching informs our response, and hear from those on the ground of the immigration crisis as to how the Church IS responding.
Panelists:
● Most Reverend Joseph Tyson, Bishop of the Diocese of Yakima, chair of the USCCB’s Pastoral Care for Migrants, Refugees and Travelers, and Catholic Climate Covenant’s Episcopal Moderator
● Chloe Noel, Environmental Research and Policy Advisor, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
● Jesús de la Torre, Assistant Director for Global Migration, Hope Border Institute For more information, contact paz@catholicclimatecovenant.org.

Pope Leo XIV’s New Challenge and Moral Leadership on Poverty, Work, and Artificial Intelligence
2025-10-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium, 1501 TONDORF ROAD NW
In his new apostolic exhortation Dilexi te (“I have loved you”), Pope Leo powerfully elevates concern for the poor as a central theme of his pontificate. He writes, “The condition of the poor is a cry that, throughout human history, constantly challenges our lives, societies, political and economic systems, and, not least, the Church. On the wounded faces of the poor, we see the suffering of the innocent and, therefore, the suffering of Christ himself.”
Pope Leo’s strong focus on the poor is situated within his acknowledgement of our rapidly changing social and economic context. Just after he was elected, Pope Leo said the Church should offer “her social teaching in response … to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor.” Concern for the poor combines with new moral questions around the impacts of artificial intelligence, especially on workers, to form the central themes of his early pontificate.
This timely Public Dialogue will respond to Pope Leo’s powerful challenge to the Church to refocus on the poor and his questions regarding the moral and human impacts of artificial intelligence at this time of economic turmoil and transformation.
Four outstanding leaders will

Address the challenges for the Church and our nation of widespread poverty in the U.S. and around the world, and the message of Pope Leo’s apostolic exhortation Dilexi te (“I have loved you”) on the topic of poverty in light of Catholic social teaching.
Examine the ongoing mandate of Rerum novarum and other elements of Catholic social thought: the dignity and rights of workers, just wages, defending those who are poor, and support for families and unions.
Explore how the Church can share the tradition of Catholic social teaching in response to what Pope Leo XIV has called “another industrial revolution… artificial intelligence and new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor.”
Look ahead to how Pope Leo, the Church, and others can address the moral dimensions and human impacts of poverty, AI, and other economic pressures on workers, poor families, and society.

John Carr, founder of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, will moderate the dialogue. For more than twenty years, Carr led the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ efforts on poverty, work, and economic justice.
Photo credit: Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo
Participants

Cardinal Blase Cupich
Cardinal Blase Cupich is the archbishop of Chicago, Illinois. A close advisor to both Pope Francis and now Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Cupich has been an advocate for Catholic social teaching on human dignity, the common good, work, labor, and a preferential option for the poor and vulnerable.

Paul Almeida
Paul Almeida is the dean and William R. Berkley Chair at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. During his tenure, Dean Almeida has built the school’s capabilities around fields of the future through new initiatives, including one focused on artificial intelligence, analytics, and the future of work.

Cecilia Flores
Cecilia Flores is the executive director of Catholic Volunteer Network. Prior to this role, she was a community organizer with Sacramento ACT, where she worked to address issues of poverty and injustice in California. Flores also spent several years volunteering in Honduras with the Missioners of Christ.

Liz Shuler
Liz Shuler is the president of AFL-CIO, the first woman elected to this position. A visionary leader and longtime trade unionist, Shuler has been invited to speak at the Vatican on the dignity of work, the rights of workers, and climate change.

Pilgrimage Planning Workshops – October 21
2025-10-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Online

AUSCP Consultation on USCCB Laity Document
2025-09-17 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
1-2:30 PM EST; 12-1:30 PM CST; 11-12:30 MST; 10-11:30 PST
The objective of this Conversation in the Spirit is to assist the U.S. bishops as they discover how the People of God understand the baptismal identity and co-responsible mission of the laity within Church and society.
Our Speaker
Sr. Marie Kolbe Zamora served as an official for the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in Rome during the Global Synod. She will speak about her experience in Rome, the importance of synodality to the US Church, and the impact of synodality and deep listening on her own life. Originally hailing from Houston, Texas, Sister Marie Kolbe Zamora is a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity (Diocese of Green Bay). She holds an S.T.B., S.T.L. in Dogmatic Theology, and S.T.D. from the Pontifical Gregorian University, specializing in Bonaventure and Ecclesiology.
Preparation
Prayerfully reflect on these questions prior to the event. These questions will be discussed in our small group Conversation in the Spirit.

Where do you see the Holy Spirit at work in your relationship/engagement with the Church?
What are your joys, hopes, and visions for the role of the laity within the Church and in society?

The AUSCP Women in the Church Working Group will record input and share it with the USCCB.
Synodal Facilitator Training
Want to receive training on how to facilitate synodal conversations and be one of our facilitators? Training will occur on Tuesday, September 16th at 5:30 PM EST and will take 1 hour. Some online training prior to the live training will be required. Answer yes to facilitation as you register for more information.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dbZl8MGXQYKW21cDyyrpQw#/registration

Pilgrimage Planning Workshops – September 16
2025-09-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Online

Sharing Cultures — Session 4 of 4
2025-06-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
A series of four monthly Zoom gatherings – 6:00 to 7:30 pm Central Time; 7:00 – 8:30 pm EDT
With real people telling us what’s special about their cultures!
Purpose: to better understand persons of cultures other than my own
Tuesday, March 25 and Wednesday, May 28
Wednesday, April 30 and Wednesday, June 25
TO REGISTER FOR ONE OR MORE, GET A ZOOM LINK, Email: tpmarciani@gmail.com with your name, email address and phone number.
May we have a deeper appreciation of people of all cultures, so we more fully grasp how each person can live to her/his full potential and all of us can live well together. Sponsored by Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Commission (JPIC) and Anti-Racism Committee (ARC) of the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate, Joliet Franciscans

The Legacy of Pope Francis in the Trump Era
2025-05-29 17:30 | Lourdes University, 6832 Convent Blvd, Sylvania, Ohio, 43560
Dear Friends and Readers,
For those of you in the Toledo area, I am giving a lecture on Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the theater in the Franciscan Center on the campus of Lourdes University. It is entitled: “The Legacy of Pope Francis in the Trump Era,” and will highlight the teachings of Pope Francis that challenge President Trump’s policies on important issues including immigration, global warming, democracy and globalization.
No reservations are necessary. General admission is $10 (cash or check only) payable at the door. Students, nuns, priests and persons with financial limitations are welcome to attend for free. Thanks to a generous friend, free copies of my latest book, Catholic Social Teachings: Revealing the Treasure will be available for the first 100 participants.
If all goes well this lecture will eventually be available on my website: frjimbacik.org
I hope this will provide another opportunity to stay in touch.
Fr. Jim Bacik

Pope Francis: Pastor, Prophet, & Diplomat with Fr. Bryan Hehir
2025-05-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Pope Francis is well recognized for his leadership and innovation within the Catholic Church; his impact on the world may be seen as equally significant. The relationship of pastor, prophet, and diplomat illustrates how the internal and external roles relate in his leadership style. Fr. Hehir will explore how the impact of these dimensions of Francis’ Papacy are influencing the world today and into the future. Fr. Bryan Hehir is a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston. He was formerly a faculty member at Georgetown University and Harvard Divinity School. Hehir played a major role in the drafting of The Challenge of Peace and Economic Justice for All, the US Bishops’ pastorals on the arms race and the US economy in the mid 1980s

Remembering Pope Francis
2025-05-06 18:00 - 19:15 | Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart and Livestreamed, 3790 OLD NORTH WAY NW, Washington, DC, 20057, United States
After the death of Pope Francis, the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and the Office of Mission & Ministry at Georgetown University will bring people together to remember and reflect upon his faithful service, courageous leadership, and caring ministry. This dialogue will also explore his continuing impact and how Georgetown, the Catholic Church, our world, and all of us can continue to advance his message: mercy in the Church, justice in the economy, care for God’s creation, and peace in the world.

The mission and message of Pope Francis have been at the heart of the work of our Initiative since our founding in 2013. His challenging calls to encounter, engagement, discernment, and dialogue reflect the Jesuit values at the heart of Georgetown. As we mourn his passing, we thank God for his humble ways, strong words, and powerful example as our Holy Father.
In this dialogue, we bring together leaders from our Initiative, Georgetown, and beyond to remember Pope Francis, recall his leadership, and reflect on how we can live out Pope Francis’ calls to share the “Joy of the Gospel” and seek “a better kind of politics” that lifts up the poor and vulnerable and pursues the common good.
Rev. Mark Bosco, S.J., vice president for Mission & Ministry, will open this Dahlgren Dialogue. John Carr, founder of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, will moderate the dialogue.
Georgetown University’s Dahlgren Dialogues, co-sponsored by the Office of Mission & Ministry and the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, are a series of substantive conversations with experienced leaders in the context of prayerful reflection on current topics at the intersection of faith and public life.​
Recording
The dialogue starting at 6:00 p.m. EDT will be recorded and posted online for later viewing.
Photo by Tony Powell/Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington

Sharing Cultures — Session 3 of 4
2025-04-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Online

Everything is Connected: Laudato Si’, Teilhard de Chardin, and Catholic Social Teaching
2025-04-28 18:00 - 19:15 | Intercultural Center Auditorium: Georgetown University
Ten years ago, Pope Francis challenged us to hear both the “cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” as his groundbreaking encyclical letter Laudato Si’ offered a hopeful vision that called us to care for “our common home” and reminded us that “everything is connected.” Decades earlier, Rev. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., a French Jesuit priest and scientist, challenged us to see the interconnectedness of all life. This dialogue will explore this call to make connections, drawing on the teachings of Pope Francis and the life and writings of Teilhard de Chardin, depicted in the recent film Teilhard: Visionary Scientist.

Four respected leaders with differing experiences and expertise will examine how Catholic social teaching themes found in both Laudato Si’ and Teilhard de Chardin’s work offer a moral framework for addressing the ecological crises of our time and fostering a deeper sense of solidarity with all of creation. The dialogue will explore how Catholic social teaching can inspire transformative action to care for all of God’s creation.
Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and member of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, will moderate the dialogue.
This gathering is co-sponsored by Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
Recording
The dialogue starting at 6:00 p.m. EDT will be recorded and posted online for later viewing.

Conversations: How Do We Listen to the Spirit? — Session 2
2025-04-25 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Standing on the foundation of Vatican II teachings, how do we listen to the voices of the Spirit?
As we hear the voices of those who are marginalized, as we strive to build mutual understanding and find common ground in a polarized world, what resources can we use to resolve issues when voices differ from ours? How should science inform our teaching at the intersections of faith and science? How do we see Vatican II and synodality coming together in practical, local ways?
Please join AUSCP as we explore these questions in our final series for the Vatican II Working Group’s three-year program. We welcome your voice, even if you have not attended previous sessions. Help us hear new perspectives.
To focus our discussions on how we listen to the Spirit, we will consider two questions:

When we encounter differences, how do we embrace them synodally?
What resources do we consult?

Conversations: How Do We Listen to the Spirit? — Session 1
2025-04-23 20:00 - 21:00 | Online

Vice President JD Vance and the Triumph of Politics Over Religion
2025-04-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Lourdes University, 6832 Convent Blvd, Sylvania, Ohio, 43560
Dear Friends and Readers,
For those of you in the Toledo area, I am giving a lecture on Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in the theater in the Franciscan Center on the campus of Lourdes University. It is entitled: “Vice President JD Vance and the Triumph of Politics Over Religion” and it will tell the story of Vance’s conversion to Catholicism and explain why he was rebuked by Pope Francis and Cardinal Dolan.
No reservations are necessary. General admission is $10 (cash or check only) payable at the door. Students, nuns, priests and persons with financial limitations are welcome to attend for free.
If all goes well this lecture will eventually be available on my website: frjimbacik.org
I hope this will provide another opportunity to stay in touch.
Fr. Jim Bacik

Creatively Caring for the Most Vulnerable: Stories of Female Entrepreneurship and Hope – Immigration Focus
2025-04-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
Join us Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 3-4:30 PM EST for a Conversation in the Spirit hosted by the Women in the Church Working Group of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP). Women, bring your clergy! Clergy, bring women from your parish or ministry. The Catholic Church advocates for immigration policies based on human rights and the dignity of all people. This Conversation in the Spirit seeks input from all who desire to treat immigrants with dignity and respect. We will receive three testimonies (5-7 minutes each) prior to our small group Conversation in the Spirit.
Following our Conversation in the Spirit, we will draft and submit a summary to the USCCB Synod office and to the General Secretariat in Rome.
We need volunteers to be facilitators for synodal Conversations in the Spirit. Indicate your interest when you register. Synodal facilitators pre-call briefing is April 1, 2025 from 7-7:45 PM EST.
This conversation is dedicated to the patron saint of immigrants, St. Mother Cabrini. We want to thank our sponsors, the Executive Producers of the movie Cabrini. Suggested pre-work: Watch the movie Cabrini. Suggested post-work: Consider having a parish watch party of Cabrini and hosting a Conversation in the Spirit at the parish level.
Our Speakers
Stories from the Border: Radical Hospitality in Action Joanna Williams is the principal executive officer of the Kino Border Initiative (KBI), binational inclusive Catholic organization locally rooted in Ambos Nogales on the US-Mexico border, which has a vision of migration with dignity.

Sanctuary People Dr. Gina Pérez is a cultural anthropologist, professor, and award winning author at Oberlin College. Her new book, Sanctuary People explores sanctuary movements and practices with and among Latinas/os.

Creating Pastoral Responses to Immigrants in Need Dr. Cecilia González-Andrieu is a celebrated theologian and award-winning author committed to a faith that does justice. She is professor of Theology and Theological Aesthetics at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

AI’s Sustainability and Climate Challenges: A Catholic Response to Protect Our Common Home
2025-02-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Online United States
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, and though AI presents us with exciting new opportunities and benefits, it also presents serious challenges and risks to our common home, human dignity, and the totality of the human experience.
In this webinar we will explore: 1) What does the Catholic Church teach about AI? 20 What are the challenges/risks of AI on our common home, and especially the environmental injustice impacts on vulnerable communities? 3) How do we ensure that AI serves humanity, upholds human dignity, benefits our common home, and upholds the principles of justice, sustainability, and the equitable advancement of all of humanity? 4) How should Catholics discern and respond to the climate and sustainability challenges of AI?
Panelists: Céire Kealty, Ph.D. in Theology from Villanova University. She is a frequent commentator on culture and Christianity and has explored AI’s sustainability challenges and how Catholics are called to respond. Manann Donoghoe, Senior Research Associate, Brookings Metro. Co-author of a Brookings study outlining the growing environmental impacts of AI. Scott Hurd, Vice President for Leadership Formation with Catholic Charities USA and Catholic Climate Covenant Board Chairman.

Women and Priests-Conversations in the Spirit
2025-02-05 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
Event hosts, the Women in the Church Working Group of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP), seek to give space for listening deeply to the testimony of sisters and brothers who sometimes experience a judgmental Church instead of a listening and welcoming Church.
This call is being hosted in memory of Alana Chen.
Speakers:
Our speakers are Yunuen Trujillo, Rev. Bryan Massingale, and Joyce Calvo. Bishop John Stowe will join us for Q and A and prayer.
Yunuen Trujillo is a Catholic lay minister, faith-based community organizer, and an immigration attorney with more than 15 years of experience in young adult ministry and a leading figure for inclusive Catholic LBGT Ministry in the United States. She is a Religious Formation Coordinator (Spanish) with the Catholic Ministry with Lesbian and Gay Persons of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and author of the book LGBT Catholics: A Guide for Inclusive Ministry.
Bryan Massingale is a Catholic priest, author, activist, and professor in Applied Christian Ethics at Fordham University. Fr.. Massingale has authored two books and more than 200 articles, book chapters, and book reviews. He is a co-editor of , All of Us: A New Agenda for Catholic Theology from Queer Catholics of Color (Fortress Press, 2024). He is a leading voice among Catholics advocating the full inclusion of LGBTQ persons in both society and the faith community.
Joyce Calvo’s daughter Alana Chen died from suicide on Dec. 8, 2019. Calvo continues to urge all to “stop rejecting LGBTQ+ children” She hopes her advocacy “will alert Catholic parents to beware of the devastating impact the Church can have on their LGBTQ+ children” and “persuade people speaking for the Church to abandon their misguided and dangerous attempts to alter what God has made.”
Seeking Facilitators
We need facilitators for synodal Conversations in the Spirit. Indicate your interest when you register. A one-hour virtual training session is required and a Facilitator Briefing will be held on Feb. 3 at 6pm.

Religious Liberty, Freedom, and Formation of Conscience (session 2)
2024-11-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
In a multicultural world, with pluralistic religious traditions, how do we understand the human right to religious liberty, as taught in Dignitatis Humanae from the Vatican II Council? What are the implications for a synodal Church that teaches religious freedom as a right but also says that all religions are not the same? Please join the AUSCP, Voice of the Faithful and others as we continue to explore these questions:

How do you experience your own conscience? How does that relate to Church teaching in a synodal age?

Religious Liberty, Freedom, and the Formation of Conscience (session 1)
2024-11-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Online

AUSCP Called to Serve: Catholic Women’s Stories of Opportunities and Obstacles
2024-11-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Join us November 20th, 2024 at 3 PM EST for an interactive webinar dedicated to St. Photini (the Woman at the Well) and hosted by the Women in the Church Working Group for Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP). This is the second of 3 Conversations in the Spirit between priests and women.
This webinar seeks to inspire conversation around the callings of Catholic women and illuminate path creation stories.
Testimonies:
Katie Jansen, Parish Life Coordinator
Jessica Morel, Military Chaplain
Kelly Adamson, Benedictine Oblate, Director of Residence Life Ministry University of Dayton
Dedication:
This Conversation in the Spirit is dedicated to the Samaritan Woman, also called Woman at the Well or Photini, Mother of Evangelists. Enlightened by the living water of Christ at the well, Photini, without hesitation answered the call to preach the good news. She, luminous, was seen by Jesus, called, and acted. Samaritan Woman, St. Photini, woman at the well, give us enlightened water to drink. Luminous one, care for our souls as we shed light on paths. Photini, Mother of Evangelists, illuminate open doors.
Your input on this important subject matters! Post synodal Conversation in the Spirit a report will be written up and submitted to the USCCB Synod office and to the General Secretariat in Rome.
We need Conversation in the Spirit Facilitators. Indicate your interest when you register. All facilitators are required to take a one-hour asynchronous online training class.
These Conversations in the Spirit accrue a cost for AUSCP to organize and deliver. To help support more conversations like this one, AUSCP kindly requests you consider donating to AUSCP or becoming a member or friend of AUSCP. https://bit.ly/AUSCPdonate.

Leavening Humankind: Lumen Gentium, Series Summary Review
2024-11-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Hosted by Fr. Bob Bonnot and presented by Dr. Joe Torma

Lumen Gentium is the first of two Dogmatic Constitutions that were promulgated by Vatican II on December 4, 1963, both now listed among the 16 documents adopted by the Catholic Church’s second Vatican Council from 1963-1965. This document merits 4 presentation sessions with discussion among us. Lumen Gentium presented the church as a mystery, as a communion of baptized believers, as the people of God, as the body of Christ and as a pilgrim moving toward fulfillment in heaven but marked on earth with

… “a sanctity that is real, although imperfect.”
Our Webinar sessions run roughly 60 minutes until formal closure, followed by 15-30 minutes continuing discussion by those interested in engaging in more conversation. There will also be a final wrap-up session as we complete our study and discussion of all 16 Vatican II Documents: four Constitutions, nine Decrees, and three Constitutions. This series will be timely and enriching as we move toward the final three Synodal sessions of Pope Francis in 2024, the Church’s pathway to 2025.

Register HERE.

This is the final Summary Review of a four-part series.

The 2024 Election: Overcoming the Threats to Democracy Posed by Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism
2024-10-31 17:30 - 18:30 | Lourdes University, 6832 Convent Blvd, Sylvania, Ohio, 43560
For those of you in the Toledo area, I am giving my second lecture of this academic year on Thursday, October 31, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in the theater of the Franciscan Center on the campus of Lourdes University, entitled: “The 2024 Election: Overcoming the Threats to Democracy Posed by Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism.” The lecture will examine the history, dynamics and current strengths of these two threats and will suggest ways to counter them.
No reservations are necessary. General admission is $10 (cash or check only) payable at the door. Students, nuns, priests and persons with financial limitations are welcome to attend for free.
If all goes well this lecture will eventually be available on my website: frjimbacik.org.

Leavening Humankind: Lumen Gentium, Part 4
2024-10-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Hosted by Fr. Bob Bonnot and presented by Dr. Joe Torma

Lumen Gentium is the first of two Dogmatic Constitutions that were promulgated by Vatican II on December 4, 1963, both now listed among the 16 documents adopted by the Catholic Church’s second Vatican Council from 1963-1965. This document merits 4 presentation sessions with discussion among us. Lumen Gentium presented the church as a mystery, as a communion of baptized believers, as the people of God, as the body of Christ and as a pilgrim moving toward fulfillment in heaven but marked on earth with

… “a sanctity that is real, although imperfect.”
Our Webinar sessions run roughly 60 minutes until formal closure, followed by 15-30 minutes continuing discussion by those interested in engaging in more conversation. There will also be a final wrap-up session as we complete our study and discussion of all 16 Vatican II Documents: four Constitutions, nine Decrees, and three Constitutions. This series will be timely and enriching as we move toward the final three Synodal sessions of Pope Francis in 2024, the Church’s pathway to 2025.

Register HERE.

This is a four-part series with sessions on October 2, 9, 16, and 23. The series will conclude with a November 6 Summary Review.

Immigration and the Election
2024-10-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
With the election around the bend, we are offering some additional information on immigration issues. The Immigration Working Group is offering a webinar by Ruben Garcia who has been administering the Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas, for about 50 years. This center provides housing, food, and hospitality for people who have recently crossed the border at this very busy entry point. Ruben is well known for his service to the immigrants/refugees. He hears many personal stories and knows firsthand the present situation at the border. This webinar is a trustworthy fact check for us all. The Annunciation House has been the target recently by those who are against almost any type of immigration. The House almost had to shut down. It will be prerecorded, but there will be a brief time for comments and questions after the video.
Join us on Zoom on Thursday, October 17th, 1-2 pm Central time/2-3 Eastern time.
Register HERE.

Leavening Humankind: Lumen Gentium, Part 3
2024-10-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Online

Mass of Lamentation for all victims in Palestine and Israel
2024-10-09 20:00 - 21:00
Join Pax Christi USA and the AUSCP for an online Mass of Lamentation for all the victims of the violence in Gaza and Israel since October 7, 2023. Join the online celebration of the Mass on Wednesday, October 9, at 8 p.m. ET, 5 p.m. PT.

Leavening Humankind: Lumen Gentium, Part 2
2024-10-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Online

Leavening Humankind: Lumen Gentium, Part 1
2024-10-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
