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Cultural diversity in the catholic church today
1. CULTURAL
DIVERSITY
in the US
CATHOLIC CHURCH
TODAY
2. Written by
Eulogio Olivo-Rivera,
M.R.E., M.Th.
olilamencristoymaria@gmail.com
3. The majority of this presentation
is based on the document
Embracing the Multicultural Face
of God: Cultural Diversity and
Catholic Identity , developed as a
resource by the Committee on
Cultural Diversity in the Church of
the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
4. "Today as ever the
Church's mission to
proclaim the Gospel of
Jesus Christ and promote
the life and dignity of each
and every human being
has much to do with
insight into cultures."
Father Allan F. Deck, S.J.
Former Executive Director for the USCCB
Office for Cultural Diversity in the Church
6. Culture:
The complex whole which includes
knowledge, belief, art, law, morals,
custom, and any other capabilities and
habits acquired by the human personhood
as a member of society."
7. Cultural Diversity:
The respect of, and to different cultures.
Intercultural :
between different cultural backgrounds.
Intracultural :
between factions of one culture.
8. Cultural
generalization:
The tendency to assume that a
majority of people in a particular
cultural group hold certain values and
beliefs and engage in certain patterns
of behavior.
10. Communication style :
A set of culturally learned
characteristics associated with both
language and learning style, involving
such aspects of communication as
formal versus informal, emotional
versus subdued, direct versus indirect,
objective versus subjective, and
responses to guilt and accusations.
14. We live at a time when the
encounter of languages, races, and
cultures is more intense than ever.
Mass media, especially the Internet,
travel, immigration, and an
increasingly globalized economy are
bringing people together more and
more.
15. The experience of diversity is
therefore, more characteristic
of our times, and brings with it
serious challenges and great
opportunities.
16. FIVE PRIORITY GOALS OF THE USCCB,
2008-2011
1. Strengthening marriage.
2. Faith formation and sacramental practice.
3. Promotion of vocations to priesthood and consecrated life.
4. Life and dignity of the human person.
5. Recognition of cultural diversity with a
special emphasis on Hispanic ministry
in the spirit of Encuentro 2000 .
27. The Congregation is a spiritual center for all
those who set foot in it. It's a "kehillah
kedoshah," a sacred community where,
Relationships are paramount,
Worship is engaging,
Everyone is constantly learning,
Repair of the World is a moral imperative,
Healing is offered, and,
Personal and institutional transformation
is embraced.
The Spirituality of Welcoming: How to Transform your
Congregation into a Sacred Community (Ron Wolfson, Ph.D.,
Jewish Lights Publishing, New York, January 2006)
28. They Say, I Say
They say I am brown, I say, I am proud.
They say I only know how to cook,
I say, I know how to write a book,
So, don’t judge me by the way I look.
They say I am brown, I say, I am proud.
They say I’m not the future of this nation,
I say, stop giving discrimination,
Instead, I’m gonna use my education
to help build the human nation.
Excerpt of Diary #103
The Freedom Writers’ Diary
29. SOME DOCUMENTS
Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Unity in Diversity
(NCCB/USCC - November 15, 2000)
Brothers and Sisters Among Us: Pastoral Letter on
Racism (NCCB/USCC - November 1979)
25th Anniversity of Brothers and Sisters Among Us:
Pastoral Letter on Racism (NCCB/USCC - November
2004)
Asian and Pacific Presence: Harmony in Faith
(NCCB/USCC - November 2001)
Strangers No Longer Together on the Journey of Hope:
A Pastoral Letter Concerning Migration from the
Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the United States
(January 22, 2003)
