Cultural & Ethnic Ministry Services
The entire region is enriched and transformed by newly arriving immigrants and long-established cultural communities, with their customs, languages, religious traditions and expressions of popular piety. ('A Future Full of Hope,' Prologue)
[The Archdiocese of Seattle] …celebrates its cultural diversity as one that must be woven… into the fabric of each parish community. The presence of diverse cultural communities and the ministry of international clergy are signs of the Church’s universal identity and mission. (FFH, 57 and 58)