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The V Encuentro is a multiyear process of missionary work, consultation, leadership development and community building among Hispanic Catholics. Nearly 60 percent of millennial Catholics are Hispanic with Hispanics representing about 40 percent of U.S. Catholics.

“It’s extremely important that everyone in church finance work has a disciple’s heart, especially right now,” Cardinal Daniel DiNardo said.

"It definitely provides a service," one New York pastor said. "People have come up and thanked me for the Mass."

"We’re doing this for the mission,” its chief executive officer said. That mission includes services like adoption, counseling, sheltering domestic violence victims, affordable housing, refugee resettlement and foster care, to name a few.

The national V Encuentro conference takes place Sept. 20-23 in Grapevine, Texas. Its host diocese, Forth Worth, and its news magazine, offers a brief look at what V Encuentro is and why it matters. (NTC video/Jayme Shedenhelm)

The Diocese of Phoenix was in the midst of its own sexual abuse crisis more than 15 years ago and has since been proactive in providing healing for survivors plus preventative measures training for Church employees and volunteers.

“It’s important to understand we are powerless against this evil but not helpless,” Fr. John Lankeit said. “It’s not in our power to fix. The solution to what is going on in the Church is to surrender to the Lord.”

SCOTTSDALE — In her final days, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton urged her followers to “be children of the Church.”

Although the storm was downgraded from a hurricane to a Category 1 tropical storm, it still damaged tens of thousands of homes and left plenty without power.

A "Season of Healing" for sexual abuse survivors is underway in the Archdiocese of Washington.