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Andrew Rivas records the TCC's
first radio show on Relevant Radio |
The TCC's first radio show, Relevant to You, aired on Austin's Relevant Radio 970 AM on Friday, March 14. The hour-long show featured TCC Executive Director Andrew Rivas, as well as Ted Wrenn, General Manager for Relevant Radio in Austin. During the course of the show, Andrew discussed the history and role of the TCC in Texas, as well as the TCC's role as the public policy voice of Texas.
TCC will produce a new show every month. Click here to listen to the first show titled “About the Texas Catholic Conference.”
For more information on Relevant Radio, click here.
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TCC Staff visit the Texas Cord Blood Bank
 Last week TCC staff members visited the Texas Cord Blood Bank in San Antonio. Specially approved by the Texas legislature, the Texas Cord Blood Bank allows families to donate their infant's cord blood at no cost to the family.
Cord blood, which is donated following the birth of a healthy baby, is rich in blood-making cells which can be used, like bone marrow transplants, to treat children and adults with certain cancers and other fatal blood disorders. Diseases currently treated with cord blood include aplastic anemia, lymphoma, genetic disorders such as sickle cell anemia, leukemia, and other blood cancers...click here to read more...
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Poverty and Racism: Through the Lens of Homelessness, Health, and Child Welfare
The Texas Catholic Conference is hosting the 22nd Annual Catholic Charities and Parish Social Ministry Gathering from April 28-30 in San Antonio, Texas. The theme for this year’s annual gathering is based on the Catholic Charities USA policy paper, “Poverty and Racism: Overlapping Threats to the Common Good.” It is a continuation of our focus from 2007, when as providers of social services in agencies and parishes across the state, we gathered as advocates to carry a strong anti-poverty message to Texas Legislators. Click here for more information, including an agenda, registration form, and flyer for the conference.
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Parish Management Seminar
The Texas Catholic Conference is hosting the Parish Management Seminar from May 12-16, 2008.Topics covered at the Seminar include Pastoral Planning and the Role of Management, Organization of Parish Volunteers, Stewardship, Conflict Resolution, Recognizing Diversity in the Faith Dimensions of the Parish Community, and more. This seminar is directed toward parish priests as well as parish secretaries and other administrative staff. Click here for more information, including a detailed agenda and registration form.
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Solidarity in an Election Year: 5th Annual Rev. William J. Young Social Justice Summer Conference
The University of St. Thomas will host the 5th Annual Rev. William J. Young Social Justice Summer Conference on June 4-6, 2008. This year's theme is “Solidarity in an Election Year.” The conference will focus on the principle of solidarity, in the context of immigration and globalization issues, as well as Forming Conscience for Faithful Citizenship from the USCCB and the issue of the Catholic vote in the 2008 recent elections. Click here for more information, including how to register.
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Social effects of sin greater than ever, says Vatican official
In today's globalized culture, the social effects of sin are greater than ever before and deserve the church's urgent attention, a Vatican official said.
New forms of sin have arisen in the area of biotechnology, economics and ecology, and many involve questions of individual rights and wider social effects, said Bishop Gianfranco Girotti.
Bishop Girotti is an official of the Apostolic Penitentiary, an office that deals with questions relating to penance and indulgences. He made the comments in an interview March 8 with the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
Bishop Girotti said the sense of sin in today's world should be even more acute than before, since the effects of sin are often widespread.
"If yesterday sin had a rather individualistic dimension, today it has an impact and resonance that is above all social, because of the great phenomenon of globalization," he said.
"In effect, attention to sin is a more urgent task today, precisely because its consequences are more abundant and more destructive," he said.
Among the "new sins" that have emerged in recent times, he pointed to genetic experiments and manipulation that violate fundamental human rights and produce effects difficult to foresee and control.
He said other areas where sin has a social impact include drug abuse, which affects many young people; economic injustice, which has left the poor even poorer and the rich richer; and environmental irresponsibility…click here to read more…
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Murder victims' families say death penalty exacts toll on their lives
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (CNS) -- Armed with a new study that shows the death penalty has cost Maryland taxpayers at least $186 million, opponents of capital punishment urged a Senate committee to ban the death penalty in Maryland or at least commission a study to look at the issue…click here to read more…
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tcc visits the texas cord blood bank, airs first radio show
