Cultural Diversity in the Church

Pope Francis: Ten Years of Grace, God’s Mercy, Renewal and Call to Mission

Executive Director's Message 

Maria del Mar Muñoz-Visoso, M.T.S.| Executive Director, Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church, USCCB 

"I had the tremendous grace of being at St. Peter’s Square on the evening of March 13, 2013, when the fumata bianca started to come out of the Sistine Chapel and the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica ringed in the election of a new successor of Peter. From the minute he came out to the balcony and asked for the prayers of the faithful so that he could receive God’s blessing on his Petrine ministry, even before he imparted his apostolic blessing upon us, we realized he was a humble shepherd that is always close to the grey that the Good Lord has entrusted to him."

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Enlarge the space of your tent!

Chairman’s Reflection

Enlarge the space of your tent!

Most Revered Arturo Cepeda | Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit | Chairman of the Committee on Cultural Diversity |

My Brothers and Sisters, as we continue to journey the Continental Stage of our worldwide “Synod on Synodality” (2021-2024) I find it appropriate to refresh our minds and hearts to the biblical icon and image, proposed to us, becoming the vocation for God’s people as proclaimed by the prophet Isaiah, “Enlarge the space of your tent.” (Is 54:2)

At the very heart of this journey, through the Synod, we can see this tent as a sacred space of communion, of active participation and as our foundation for mission.

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