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This week, The Catholic New World looks at Jubilee pilgrimages and continues coverage of black Catholics celebrating their heritage in February
Priest AIDS stats questioned Independent experts have questioned the value of a survey and the validity of some statistical comparisons used by The Kansas City (Mo.) Star in a three-day series about Catholic priests with AIDS.
Renewing Pilgrimages A pilgrimage continues to be an opportunity to renew a relationship
with God by making a change in daily routine. Thirteen times this
year, on dates with a special faith significance, Jubilee churches
of the archdiocese will welcome the faithful on pilgrimage.
Pilgrimage: Giving access to God As a pilgrim people, our destiny is this unity, to become one
body, one spirit in Christ.
Jubilee churches in the Archdiocese of Chicago
Chicago priests: Send Elian home Two priests part of state and local delegations visiting Cuba urge United States officials to the return the child to his father in Havana.
U.S. medical mission to combat southern Africa's common enemy: AIDS The Manhattan-based Catholic Medical Mission Board and the Bristol Myers Squibb pharmaceutical company will invest over $100 million to fight the disease currently ravaging the southern countries on the African continent.
Evangelization focus of Parish Leadership Day 2000 "There is an opportunity for a Catholic Great Awakening, the challenge
for Catholicism to become America's spiritual leaven and to plant
in the American soil the consistent ethic of life on common holy
ground," said Paulist Father Bruce Nieli.
Need info? Check the directory If those questions pertain to the Archdiocese of Chicago, the
answers are likely to be found in Directory 2000 of the Archdiocese
of Chicago.
Interview Sowing the seeds of black Catholic lay ministry
Parish Pride Formed originally to accommodate immigrants from Luxembourg and Germany, it is now an international parish with arrivals from Asia, Africa, India, Mexico, Cuba, Central and South America as well as Europe. Ethnic choirs enhance today's liturgies-combined cultures create festive gatherings during the year and generosity flows out to the less fortunate with a Human Concerns collection once a month.
Church Clips Puppets to pastor to PR -The newly appointed executive producer of Paulist Media Works is a parish priest, ordained in 1995, who is the former producer for Jim Henson and The Muppets. Paulist Father Eric Andrews, now in his early 30s, will combine his media talents and pastoral leadership to help dioceses, parishes and church organizations to spread the Good News, besides producing a new generation of value-based religious programs.
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