The Indigenous Catholic Research Fellowship is holding its first in-person symposium this December, 2024, in Washington, DC. Co-sponsoring the symposium is the McLean Center for the Study of Culture and Values at the Catholic University of America, and the Black and Indian Mission Office.
The McLean Center's mission is:
Mining the work of the Spirit in each people. Culture is best understood as the cumulative dialogue through history between the initiative of the Spirit and the responses of humankind in its varied environments. The goal of the MCSCV is to promote a creative mining of the resulting cultural traditions and their application to the issues of contemporary life. This is a new mode of philosophizing bringing the deep values to life from, in and through the deep cultural commitments of the many peoples in order that they be lived intensively and pervasively across civilizations.
The Black and Indian Mission Office (whose Executive Director, Fr. Henry Sands, is a co-founding board member of the ICRF) unites three organizations and missions, including that of The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, established in 1874 to
advocate for the needs of Catholic Native Americans. Supporting building projects, staffing schools, enabling parish religious education programs, raising awareness of the needs of Native American and Alaska Native Catholics, and calling others to share this mission has been at the heart of the Bureau’s work since its founding.
The ICRF is very happy to have the support of both the Black and Indian Mission Office and the McLean Center for this first symposium, which will include several public events co-sponsored by the Office and the Center along with other partners, as part of the program. More details will be posted on our events page.
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