American Decades
Brothers and Sisters to Us
Letter
By: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Date: 1979
Source: Office for Social Justice, Archdiocese of St. Paul & Minneapolis, "Catholic Social Teaching: Brothers and Sisters to Us, U.S. Catholic Bishops Pastoral Letter on Racism, 1979." Available online at http://www.osjspm.org/cst/racism.htm (accessed February 26, 2003).
About the Organization: Existing as an official assembly of the hierarchy of clergy, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has several functions; some of them are guiding church activities, administering charitable work, aiding education, and caring for immigrants. Tracing its beginnings to 1917, the organization of bishops has its headquarters in Washington, D.C., with two other offices: the Office of Migration and Refugee Services in Miami and the Office of Film and...
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1970's Religion Primary Sources
- Walz v. Tax Commission of City of New York
- Islam, a Way of Life
- Lemon v. Kurtzman
- Wisconsin v. Yoder
- American Judaism: Adventure in Modernity
- Roe v. Wade
- "Boundary of Jewish-Christian Understanding"
- "Will the Real Evangelical Please Stand Up?"
- Fully Human, Fully Alive
- The American Catholic: A Social Portrait
- Turning Your Stress Into Strength
- "Capital Punishment: The Question of Justification"
- "Women Clergy: How Their Presence Is Changing the Church"
- Brothers and Sisters to Us
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
