Lobbying Synod bishops:
How you can help
Four delegates and two alternates will represent the U.S. bishops at the Eucharist Synod Oct. 2-23 in Rome. In each of their home dioceses — Spokane, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Erie, Pa. and Rapid City, S. Dak. — CTA and FutureChurch activists and other Catholic leaders will seek meetings with them, and will deliver nearly 30,000 petition signatures, asking them to make sure the priest shortage gets on the agenda. You can support them in several ways:
Write to bishop delegates
Send your own letters or e-mails to all six. (Names and addresses below.) Pledge
your prayers for them during the synod and ask:
a. that they back our petition requests to the synod;
b. that we model our Eucharistic practice on Jesus’ inclusive table-sharing as described in the Gospels, especially Jesus’ concern and welcome for the poor and marginalized.
c. that we emphasize all the ways Christ's Real Presence is with us, not just in the sacred elements.Delegates:
Bishop William Skylstad, President, USCCB
P.O. Box 1453
Spokane, WA 99210
bishop@dioceseofspokane.org
Archbishop Wilton D.Gregory
680 W. Peachtree Street, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30308
archbishop@archatl.com
Cardinal Justin F. Rigali
222 North 17th St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1299
archbis@adphila.org.
Bishop Donald W. Wuerl
111 Boulevard of the Allies
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Secretariat for Ministerial Leadership
clergyreligious@diopitt.org
Alternates:
Bishop Donald W. Trautman
P.O. Box 10397
Erie, PA 16514-0397 BishopOfc@erieRCD.org
Bishop Blase Cupich
P.O. Box 678
Rapid City, SD 57701
Collect signatures online
For an easy way to add petition signatures, go to http:/www.
futurechurch.org/fpm/corpus/petitionEmail.htm Cut and paste a message into
an email. Send it to everyone in your address book. You can also download a
hard copy of the petition. We will collect them until Sept. 30 when Sr. Chris
Schenk departs for Rome to deliver signatures in person.
• Organize a Synod prayer service. Hold it during the
October meeting. For resources, email emily@futurechurch.org
• Pray privately and ask others to pray. Visit www.futurechurch.org
and download the “Prayer for the Eucharist Synod.”
• Get Synod updates from Rome Email info@futurechurch.org
to receive regular synod updates from Sr. Chris Schenk while she is in Rome.