Report
2017 - 2020 USCCB Strategic Plan (2016)
2017 - 2020 USCCB Strategic Plan
In a time of change, challenge and opportunity, what is Christ asking of us as a conference of bishops and as a people of God? Our response to His call is the result of more than a year of dialogue, discernment and work by the 16 standing committees, 18 subcommittees and 1 ad hoc committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) . This document is not just a report, but an invitation to join the work of the Church at the national level in the United States .
It is also a moment to deepen our own relationship with Jesus and share the resulting hope and joy with the world . As Pope Francis said while meeting the bishops of the United States in September 2015, we now “turn once again to the demanding task – ancient yet ever new – of seeking out the paths we need to take and the spirit with which we need to work .”
Developing a strategic plan for an organization as diverse as our conference is a significant undertaking . The document includes more than 740 individual projects, each comprehensive and complex in their own right . Here again, the words of the Holy Father in September inspire as we “raise fully our gaze, constantly toward the horizons which God opens before us and which surpass all that we ourselves can foresee or plan .”