Senior Living | Papal Volunteers' influence remains after 50 years

Submitted on March 24, 2010
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American Raymond Plankey gathered last year with children who attend a kindergarten school that he has helped fund in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Plankey began his nearly 50-year career as a lay missionary through the Papal Volunteers program.
American Raymond Plankey gathered last year with children who attend a kindergarten school that he has helped fund in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Plankey began his nearly 50-year career as a lay missionary through the Papal Volunteers program.
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CUERNAVACA, Mexico -- In the early 1960s, U.S. Catholic dioceses sent hundreds of young lay missionaries to Latin America for three-year stints to fight poverty, build the kingdom of God, and promote U.S. sensibilities in a region that was already overwhelmingly Catholic.

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