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Organized by Teens4Unity, the youth branch of the Focolare Movement, this year's Run4Unity event emphasized ecological conservation inviting groups to exchange their kilometers and minutes for newly planted trees.
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry. / Credit: CatholicChicago/YouTube Denver Newsroom, May 12, 2023 / 12:25 pm (CNA). Longtime Black Catholic leader Bishop Joseph N. Perry, an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, is the new chairman of the Ad Hoc...
Bishop Perry also chairs the USCCB Committee on African-American Catholics, on which he has served since 2004,
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry. / Credit: CatholicChicago/YouTubeDenver Newsroom, May 12, 2023 / 12:25 pm (CNA).Longtime Black Catholic leader Bishop Joseph N. Perry, an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, is the new chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).Perry, 75, succeeds Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Kentucky, who served two terms as chairman. Fabre, who became archbishop of Louisville in March 2022, requested that a new chairman be named, the USCCB said in a May 10 announcement.Perry will be the third chairman of...
The typical member of the priestly ordination class of 2023 is a 33-year-old cradle Catholic, according to a newly released survey of 334 of the 458 men slated to be ordained to the priesthood in the United States this year.