US bishops defend planned $28 million eucharistic congress amid criticism

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Deborah Rose-Milavec, co-director of FutureChurch, an organization that advocates for reforms in church governance and practice, said, “To put that kind of money into a revival for [the bishops’] image and their authority is a really sad chapter in a very long history of this group of bishops leading the church wrongly.” 

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“For Catholics who have experienced hurt and marginalization, this revival and eucharistic congress are going to do nothing to heal those wounds. In fact, they will probably rip them wide open,” said Russ Petrus, the other co-director of FutureChurch.