RE Congress preaches compassion amid fire aftermath, social challenges
Speakers at this year’s Los Angeles Religious Education Congress found ways to apply the event’s theme, “Called to Compassion,” to everything from interreligious dialogue to modern social justice concerns, to personal spirituality.
But the event’s most powerful call to compassion came from an uninvited guest: the wildfires that decimated entire LA County communities last month.
The adult days of the congress, held Feb. 21-23, began with the moving testimony of two survivors of the Palisades Fire: Msgr. Liam Kidney, pastor of Corpus Christi Church in Pacific Palisades, and the parish’s secretary, Lorraine Hartman.