 Offices :: Black Catholics
Mission
The Office for Black Catholics, with the guidance of Cardinal George, serves the Archdiocese in bringing into focus the strengths, contributions and needs of the diverse black Catholic community. The community includes African-Americans, Africans from most African nations, Haitian-Americans, and Caribbean-Americans. In addition, as an agency in the Department of Evangelization, Catechesis, and Worship, this Office enriches the other 17 Office Directors with a deepened awareness and sensitivity to and for the African Diaspora in the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Catholic universality is marked by the contribution of all cultures. Each cultural group has enriched our Catholic community with its unique gifts. This sharing of differences within the community of one faith is the path to salvation willed by the Triune God, whose love is universal. Loving only people who just look like ourselves, loving only those who are members of our biological family, or who share our own ethnic or cultural background, our own political views or our own class assumptions, does not fulfill the challenge of the Gospel.
Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Dwell in My Love, 2001 p.20
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