November 16-17, 2024
Please be generous in this November’s special collection which supports the following campaigns:
- Catholic Home Missions
- Catholic University of America
- Catholic Campaign for Human Development
- Catholic Communication Campaign
- Black & Indian Missions
In the United States, one in six people live in poverty. Through this collection, you support programs that address the causes of poverty and provide a sustainable future for people across the country who struggle. Please prayerfully consider how you can support this collection and work on the margins.
To explore additional information about these campaigns, see below.
Envelopes will be in the pews and in the parish office. Click to donate online. Thank you for your support!
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Support the church at home by supporting essential pastoral programs in financially challenged dioceses and parishes in the United States through the Catholic Home Missions Appeal.
The Appeal primarily supports home mission dioceses, that is, those dioceses in the United States that are unable to offer their people the basic pastoral ministries of word, worship, and service without outside help. It may also give grants to other dioceses in the U.S. for particular
projects, and to organizations and religious communities engaged in missionary work.
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Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America is unique as the national university of the Catholic Church and as the only higher education institution founded by the U.S. bishops. Established in 1887 as a papally chartered graduate and research center, the University began offering undergraduate education in 1904.
As the national university of the Catholic Church in the United States, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the Holy See, The Catholic University of America is committed to being a comprehensive Catholic and American institution of higher learning, faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ as handed on by the Church.
The Catholic University of American seeks to discover and impart the truth through excellence in teaching and research, all in service to the Church, the nation, and the world.
Aims and Goals of the University
Human Development Campaign
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is the national anti-poverty program of the U.S. Catholic Bishops, working to carry out the mission of Jesus Christ
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.” Luke 4:18
The belief that those who are directly affected by unjust systems and structures have the best insight into knowing how to change them is central to Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
Catholic Campaign for Human Development works to break the cycle of poverty by helping low-income
people participate in decisions that affect their lives, families, and communities.
CCHD offers a hand-up, not a handout.
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The Catholic Communication Campaign helps the Church spread the Gospel message in the U.S. and in developing countries using modern media tools to inform, inspire, and enlighten.
“God is not Solitude, but Communion; he is Love, and therefore communication, because love always
communicates; indeed, it communicates itself in order to encounter the other.” Pope Francis.
Through websites, social networks, television, radio, and print, the Catholic Communication Campaign (CCC) helps the Church spread the Gospel message through the media locally and nationally. Half of all donations to the CCC collected in your diocese stay in your diocese to support your local communications needs, such as radio and television programming and diocesan publications.
The Catholic Communication Campaign helps connect people at home and abroad with Christ.
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This Collection has for the last 131 years, changed the landscape of evangelization and education efforts for Native Americans, Alaskan Americans, and African Americans throughout the United States.
Our financial support of the Collection is the mechanism that affects the Church’s evangelization efforts. We all agree that never have the needs for the Native American, Alaskan American, and African American communities been so great.
History tells us that lasting change in a community can all come through faith, hope, and charity.
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