Yom Kippur begins at sundown September 29 . The program features panelists Bill Blakemore of ABC News, David Gonzalez of The New York Times , Ken Woodward of Newsweek , and moderator Margaret O'Brien Steinfels of Commonweal magazine. The forum is open to communications personnel. In late September , the Catholic Campaign for Human Development , the Church's domestic, anti-poverty agency, will announce its national grants. The projects are located in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Grants go to organizing and economic development projects controlled by the poor themselves.
The money awarded to the self-help groups was collected last year in Catholic parishes nationwide. In most dioceses the annual parish appeal for the CCHD will be November 21-22. Additional footage highlighting CCHD's funded projects will also be uplinked on November 4. A Catholic Commitment for the New Millennium , to be signed by Catholics in Advent 1999. Look for more information to come.