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The head of the Vatican-based Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development will be among prominent Catholic speakers at the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests' assembly
By La Croix International staff | United States
Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Vatican-based Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, has agreed to address the June 2022 assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP) in Baltimore.
The AUSCP which has around 1,200 priests among its ranks is the largest association of priests in the United States. It was founded in 2011 as a support group for priests who are inspired by the teaching of Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and its continued implementation.
Turkson, accepted the invitation to speak at the assembly following a personal visit of AUSCP executive director Father Stephen Newton at the cardinal's Vatican office.
The cardinal, who was born in Ghana, was recently in the news for rejecting claims that U.S. President Joe Biden be denied Communion.
There is an ongoing debate among U.S. bishops around whether Catholic politicians should be denied Communion because of their pro-abortion rights stand and policies.
Turkson's comments to reporters came ahead of the General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which begins November 15.
The AUSCP had called on bishops not to make any use of the Eucharist as a political weapon -- whether manifest or camouflaged -- before the USCCB virtual plenary assembly June 16-18 when the bishops voted to draft a formal statement on what the Eucharist means in the Church.
Turkson, 73, joins a list of prominent Catholic speakers at the priests' June 20-23 assembly, which is organized on the theme, Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future."
Speakers will include Bishop John Stowe, OFM Conv. of Lexington; Franciscan Father Dan Horan, Director of the Center for Spirituality at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ind; and Mary Novak, executive director of the NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice.
Bishop Stowe, a member of the AUSCP, is known to be in favor of the pending Equality Act, legislation opposed by the USCCB. He was quoted as saying "It is our duty to love and defend" LGBTQ Americans.
When it held its first meeting in 2012, just after being founded, not many bishops in the United States were enthusiastic about the AUSCP.
Then in their 2016 meeting held in Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago presided at Mass with the group. Since then, the AUSCP has had a prominent U.S. bishop at every one of the yearly gatherings.
Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe gave the keynote address in 2020 and the presider and homilist at the assembly Mass was Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Vatican Nuncio to the United States.
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