SHINE Conference puts focus on social justice and advocacy - Biweekly Newspaper for the Diocese of Richmond %

In his 2005 encyclical “Deus Caritas Est,” Pope Benedict XVI wrote: “For the Church, charity […] belongs to her nature and is an irrevocable manifestation of her very essence.” At the SHINE Conference on March 1, Ingrid Delgado, associate director of the Office of Government Relations for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), quoted this encyclical during her presentation. Delgado added: “The Catholic Church is the largest pr…