When the bishops meet in LA next week, they’ll be discussing, among other matters, a major restructuring, aka downsizing of the committee structure of the USCCB. Rocco takes it from here:
- Collapsing five committees — "vocations, priestly formation, diaconate, consecrated life, and priestly life and ministry" — into a single committee for Clergy and Religious Life, which would also include the ad hoc for Bishops’ Life and Ministry and the former committees (to be made boards) for the North American College and the American College at Louvain;
- A combined Committee for Catechesis and Catholic Education to replace "catechesis, evangelization, education and world mission"
- Amalgamating all the national collections — e.g. Retired Religious, Catholic Communications Campaign, Campaign for Human Development, Catholic Relief Services, etc. etc. etc. etc. — under a single committee oversight.
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