Parish
Without Borders
A network of Catholic communities
joined in mission and outreach
USA Parishes and Dioceses
Responding in Global Mission
Updated: Thursday, August 31, 2000

Practical responses to the 1997 Statement from the Bishops of the United States
to Catholic parishes in anticipation of the Jubilee Year

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Parish Stories We Have Gathered

From St. Cloud Diocese to Kenya

From Champaign, IL, to El Salvador
From Florissant, Missouri to Honduras
From San Antonio, Texas to the Yucatan Pennisula
From Spokane, Washington to Harvest for Hope in Bolivia
From the Diocese of Erie to the Yucatan
From Rhode Island to Ghana

U.S. Parish and Diocesan Website Pages
Focused on Global Mission

The following are links which will take you straight to where the outreach action is going on at the following parish and diocesan sites. Many other parish sites have pages simply indicating that a social justice committee exists, so we link only those which give a hands-on feel of actual mission ministry going on.

New on 9/1/2000:

  • Erie Diocese Misión de Amistad
    For the past 29 years, the Diocese of Erie has been linked to the Archdiocese of Yucatan, Mexico in a "Mission of Friendship." And this is only ONE of the projects of this diocese's Foreign Missions office.

  • St. Joseph Parish, Bristol, CT: Christian Peacemaking in the 21st Century
  • Blessed Sacrament (Seattle) Mexico Project
  • St. Mary's (Winchester, MA) and Sister Parish in Peru
  • St. Edward's (Bloomington, MN) -- projects in Nicaragua and Dominican Republic
  • St. Mary's (Waterford, NY) - and the El Quiché region of Guatemala
  • St. Joseph (Seattle) Companeros, El Salvador Project
  • St. Joan of Arc (Minneapolis) and Tierra Nueva Dos (Guatemala)
  • St. Jerome (Idaho) Tijuana Project

  • Seattle Archdiocese Religious Education (Social Justice)
  • Diocese of Joliet Peace and Justice Ministry
  • Archdiocese of Cincinnati Office of Social Justice and World Peace

    FEATURED SITE
    for September 2000

    Office of Social Justice Minneapolis-St. Paul
    Click Here to Visit this Excellent Site!

    IN BRIEF . . .

    Philadelphia Archdiocese to have mission parish in Puerto Rico

    PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua announced the Philadelphia Archdiocese is taking on responsibility for a mission parish outside its borders -- in the Diocese of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. ``We are very proud of what we are about to undertake,'' the cardinal said at a news conference about the decision to care for Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Barceloneta. It is a historic first for the archdiocese. The parish, which serves about 12,000 people through its main church and three area chapels, is west of San Juan and in the northern and central part of Puerto Rico, the cardinal explained.

    Fr. Joe Healey, MM, has brought to our attention the dynamic of "twinning" Small Christian Communities (SCC's) based in U.S. parishes with SCC's in other parts of the world. For a closer look at how this concept works, visit the following website:

    Twinning Small Christian Communities

    For a more general look at the SCC movement, go here:

    BuenaVista: a Network of People . . .

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