United States
Catholic Mission
Association
Hecker Center
3025 4th Street, NE
Suite 100
Washington, DC 20017-1102
Tel: 202-832-3112
Fax: 202-832-3688
uscma@uscatholicmission.org


The United States Catholic Mission Association (USCMA) unites
and supports people committed to the
cross-cultural and global
mission of Jesus Christ in service to the Church and the world
 


The USCMA requests special prayers and remembrances for all missioners serving in Haiti.

If you would like to donate please visit the Catholic Relief Services website: www.crs.org

To read thoughts from our members of the United States Catholic Mission Association, please visit our blog at
http://www.uscma-dc.blogspot.com

 

Save the Date

2010 Annual Mission Congress

2010 Mission Reflection Guide

2010 Reflection Answer Sheet

God's Mission, Many Faces
A Portrait of U.S. Catholics in Mission

Albuquerque, New Mexico
October 28-31, 2010

Albuquerque Marriott
2101 Louisiana Boulevard, NW
Albuquerque, NM 87110
 

click here for more information

 

Current Topics and Resources

Pope Benedict XVI's new encyclical "Cartas in Veritate-Charity in Truth" offers a much needed ethical analysis of the global economic crisis and an essential moral framework on how to move forward as one human family.  To read more about it, click here

National Jesuit Committee on Investment Responsibility
Water Sustainability 101:  Business Responsibility for Water
Presented on Sunday, October 4, 2009 at the Chicago O'Hare Hilton
By Anna Bradley, Consultant, click here

As the Senate begins consideration of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, the U.S. Catholic community is very concerned about both domestic and international provisions that are inadequate to address the needs of poor and vulnerable people at home and abroad. Call on Senators to increase funding for both international adaptation and domestic anti-poverty provisions.  For  additional information and Catholic Community Talking Points on Senate Climate Change Legislation, click here.  To view the letter on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on the proposed legislation, click here.
 


 

 

2009 Annual Mission Conference

October 23-25. 2009
Behold I Create a New Heaven
and a New Earth:
Seeing Mission with New Eyes
New Orleans, LA

 

Keynote Address by Anthony J. Gittins, CSSp, Professor of Theology and Culture, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, "Behold I Create a New Heaven and a New Earth" or "Hanging Baskets, Broken Strings, and a World Renewed"

Power point presentation for the Dialogue Session facilitated by Jimmy Huck and Matt Russo, "Katrina Learnings"


 


 

 


Survey

USCMA compiles information and statistics on  the work of U.S. Catholics serving in global and  cross-cultural mission activity.  The 2008 results are now available.

Towards Building a Transformative Global Community