PHILIPPINES/UNITED STATES
Sun.Star
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
MANILA Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle will serve as the spiritual director of the 2016 Special Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to be held this month in the United States.
In a statement, the Archdiocesan Office of Communications said that Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, president of the USCCB, invited the head of the Archdiocese of Manila to be part of the Special Assembly, which will be held on June 13-17 at the Diocese of Orange in the state of California.
According to Bishop John Barres of Allentown, chairman of the USCCB Special Assembly Planning Committee, “the spiritual director serves as the central figure of the assembly, delivering daily reflections and homilies on a theme central to the episcopal ministry.”
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