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USCCB grants $9.2M to US mission dioceses

November 29, 2016

A subcommittee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has granted $9.2 million to 84 US “home mission” dioceses, most of them in rural areas.

The funds are provided by an annual collection, and the figure represents an decrease of over $800,000 from the amount announced last year.

Projects funded include seminarian education, Catholic campus ministry, and Latino Catholic leadership training.

 

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Thu12 November
Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Josaphat (1580-1643), a Catholic of the Ruthenian rite. He was an apostle of the return of the Orthodox schismatics to the Church of Rome. Born in the then Polish region of Lithuania of Orthodox parents, he became a Catholic and a Ukrainian Basilian monk. Chosen…

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