Goal: Minister Effectively within Ethnically-Diverse Parish Communities
Objectives
- To challenge the Catholic community to confront prejudices, intolerance, and misconceptions through prayer, preaching, catechesis and communications
- To consistently include those to be served in identifying the needs of the community and the ways to meet those needs
- To increase the ability of diocesan offices, agencies and individual parishes to minister to the growing Spanish-speaking population
- To actively foster vocations to the priesthood arising from within ethnic communities
- To identify, develop and equip bi-lingual leaders at the parish and diocesan level
- To expand outreach services to new immigrant populations and monitor the growth of those populations within the diocese
- To begin a practical dialogue between parishes about the “best practices” of ministering among a variety of ethnic communities in a single parish
