Grassroots leaders to gather in California
By Brian Roewe, December 28, 2016 (National Catholic Reporter)
After three international assemblies — two in Rome and one in Bolivia — the World Meeting has begun to move toward such regional gatherings. The Modesto meeting is sponsored by the Vatican’s newly formed Dicastery for Integral Human Development, the U.S.-based PICO National Network of faith-based organizers, and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the anti-poverty program of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
“The gathering is about the dignity of all people, which we don’t receive from any government; it’s something we are born with,” dicastery prefect Cardinal Peter Turkson, who will be in Modesto, said in a statement.