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The Many Faces of our Church
A Letter to our Catholic Faithful Regarding Cultural Diversity
By Bishop Dale J. Melczek (2002)
There can be no doubt that God’s blessings are manifested in many ways. That is evident in Northwest Indiana in the cultural diversity which we experience. We do not always fully appreciate this. As a result, we sometime undermine opportunities to enhance the quality of our life. By failing to see cultural diversity as a rich resource from which we can draw, we prevent ourselves from realizing the potential that can be ours.
Every part of our body is a truly valuable, unique, highly sophisticated mechanism which can perform a function which no other part of our body can. Yet, when we think of ourselves, we never think of any one part but rather the sum of the parts that compose our body. It is what the parts are and can accomplish in unison that makes the human body such a beautifully designed organism. (click here to read more )
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