John Grabowski , associate professor, theology, and Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, participated in a discussion at Catholic University on March 16 on the Synod of Bishops and New Evangelization. Archbishop Kurtz was interviewed on the topic for the National Catholic Register. Catholic News Agency and Catholic News Service covered the discussion. See below.
From: Catholic News Service (via Catholic San Francisco) Date: March 25, 2015 Author: Dennis Sadowski
The family is an instrument of evangelization and it can influence others more than people realize, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said at The Catholic University of America.
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, said families deserve to be held up and supported in their daily lives and that last fall's extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family in Rome was designed to ensure that families remain an integral part of church life."I think (evangelization and family life) goes hand in hand certainly, this whole idea that the family is not simply an object of our care. The family is what influences neighbors," he said during a March 16 program tying together last October's extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family and the upcoming synod on the family with the new evangelization.
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From: Catholic News Agency Date: March 18, 2015 Author: Matt Hadro
So said Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, the head of the U.S. bishops conference, at a Mar. 16 discussion at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
"If we took the same studied approach to what the Church is saying as we do, let's say, to sports, we'd be experts," he reflected.
The problem, he explained, is many Catholics see the secular headlines on Pope Francis and don't study Church teaching to grasp what he is really saying. Moral and doctrinal confusion ensues.
"I tell our people we have to be students," he said. One of the missions born from last year's extraordinary Synod on the Family, he added, "is to take an interest, become a student, even as much as March Madness."
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From: National Catholic Register Date: March 16, 2015 Author: Joan Frawley Desmond
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was recently named to be one of four U.S. delegates to the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family, which will meet at the Vatican in October.
On March 16, he discussed the issues and questions related to the synod in the context of the Church's New Evangelization at a public forum with John Grabowski, an associate professor and director of moral theology/ethics at The Catholic University of America and a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
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