Combined years of service total 915 for retiring USCCB employees
WASHINGTON (CNS) --- Thirty-one employees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops whose combined years of service total 915 will retire by July 1 as part of the USCCB restructuring. Those who are leaving include the executive directors of the USCCB departments of Hispanic Affairs, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Migration and Refugee Services, Management Information Systems and Government Liaison. Also retiring are the interim head of the Department of Communications, the conference's specialist in Catholic-Jewish relations, the associate directors of Government Liaison and the Office of General Counsel, the director of development for the Catholic Communication Campaign and two longtime policy advisers in the USCCB Office of International Justice and Peace. Late last year, the USCCB offered retirement incentives to 48 employees who were at least 55 years old and had worked for the conference at least five years.

Pope to meet youths, Latin American bishops during visit to Brazil
VATICAN CITY (CNS) --- During a five-day visit to Brazil in May, Pope Benedict XVI will meet with young people and visit a center for recovering drug addicts, organizers said. The pope will spend time in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, before traveling to Aparecida to open the fifth general conference of the Latin American bishops. Brazilian bishops announced the final schedule of the pope's May 9-13 visit in early February.