African American Family SPIRITUAL LIFE Pressures on the family secularization socioeconomic dynamics employment education incarceration health disparities These pressures give rise to an opportunity for societal transformation on matters relating to marriage and family life ID: 1033528
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1. We must avoid the neglect of interior life/spiritual conversion as the primary task of the Christian person. Our everyday witness and discipleship is the foundational dynamic of evangelization.African American FamilySPIRITUAL LIFE
2. Pressures on the family – secularization; socioeconomic dynamics: employment, education, incarceration, health disparities. These pressures give rise to an opportunity for societal transformation on matters relating to marriage and family life. African American FamilyThe Family
3. Not sharing “our story” Pastoral leadership must be clear about what has happened, and what is happening, regarding evangelization in the Black community. African American FamilyKnowledge
4. Emphasis on one culture cannot be to the detriment of another culture. African American Familydiversity
5. Collective responsibility (on the part of the entire Church) to support and utilize apostolates toward the evangelization of all. African American FamilyCo-Responsibility
6. Developing coalitions of Church apostolates and leaders across cultures toward mutual support and evangelization.African American FamilyCommunion
7. Utilization of the means of social communication and related technologies to share the Gospel message and our participation in God’s saving work. African American FamilyCommunications
8. African American FamilyBrought to Fulfillment
9. Develop a cultural diversity advisory group in each diocese/region to engage local Catholics to convene conversation/experience similar to the 2010 Catholic Cultural Diversity Network Convocation.African American FamilyNext StepsIt’s Better Together
10. Resurrect our pastoral plan from the National Black Catholic Congress in 1987 with any eye toward emerging cultural identities among youth and young adults and developing new leadership. African American FamilyNext StepsAfrican American Family
11. Clarification is needed regarding USCCB Pastoral Priority #1, which states, “Recognize cultural diversity in the Church with emphasis on Hispanic ministry in the spirit of Encuentro 2000.” African American FamilyFurther Dialogue