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Social Ministry Day One: Lynch urges stamina in 'political and ecclesial desert'
Posted on Feb 24, 2008 17:40pm CST.By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
Washington, D.C.
Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida, opened the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering by urging the church’s social activists to persevere despite what he called “a long journey in an uncertain political and ecclesial desert.”
“This is an election year, and once again we do not hear the needs of the poor, the vulnerable elderly, and children both born and unborn raised up, Lynch said.
Social Ministry Day One: Honduran cardinal calls for 'a better world, not only a safer world'
Posted on Feb 24, 2008 20:22pm CST.By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
Washington, D.C.
The cardinal of one of the smallest and most impoverished nations in Central American tonight called upon American Catholics to form a sort of “spiritual GPS system” in the country’s politics, pointing the way toward “a better world, not only a safer world.”
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras made the comments at the annual Catholic Ministry Gathering in Washington, D.C.
