The Telling Take Us Home: Taking Our Place in the Stories that Shape Us

The Catholic Committee of Appalachia offers this third pastoral letter as a prophetic word spoken for new realities among us. They recommit to reading the signs of the times, listening to the stories of the places and people who hurt most, to create new paths forward toward greater justice, peace, and wholeness for their communities and for creation. In this new statement, they recognize a deepening ecological crisis and new pressures on their struggling communities. But they also offer a statement of hope, lifting up communities, organizations, and movements that are pointing toward a better way, a message for and from youth about the future they desire, and a statement which calls churches to reconnect with local, regional, and global movements for justice.