2017 USCCB Convocation Participants Guidebook and Journal | Page 25

The Call to Missionary Discipleship • The Catholic Landscape at Colleges and Universities • The Impact of Immigration on Catholic Life in the United States • The State of the Family and Human Sexuality: Struggles and Opportunities • The State of Catholic Education and Catechesis in the United States • The Church’s Relationship with the State • International Solidarity: Our Role Within the Global Landscape • The Landscape of Popular Culture, Media, and News in the United States • The Needs and Contributions of Latinos in the US Church: A Primer for Encuentro • Dialogue, Relationships, and Encounter: The Ecumenical & Interreligious Landscape • Discerning Vocations, Charisms, and Gifts for Mission in the Church and in Society • Illuminating the Landscapes and Challenges According to Evangelii Gaudium • Racism and Exclusion in America • The Landscape of Parish Life and Catholic Ministry Today The Peripheries in the United States Pope Francis has challenged the Church to continue to go out, to go forth, to the peripheries in search of those who are in need of the Lord Jesus Christ and of his mercy and grace through the Church, his Body: Each Christian and every community must discern the path that the Lord points out, but all of us are asked to obey his call to go forth from our own comfort zone in 20