Washington, D.C. Newsroom, 17 July, 2024 / 7:35 pm (ACI Africa).
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on National Collections announced that it has awarded $10.5 million in grants from the money that Mass-goers provided during special collections.
Bishops serving on subcommittees that oversee national collections awarded 453 grants with the money generated by American Catholics. The grants support pastoral care, evangelization efforts, and social ministry in the United States and globally.
The grants were supported by five national special collections: The Bishops’ Emergency Disaster Fund, The Catholic Home Missions Appeal, The Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa, The Collection for the Church in Latin America, and The Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe.
“These collections are a powerful way of following Jesus’ commands to seek the lost sheep and to care for ‘the least of these,’” Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, New Mexico, the chairman of the USCCB Committee on National Collections, said in a statement.
“They are one way in which Catholics in dioceses across the United States can show solidarity and act together to provide tangible love and assistance to our neighbors in need, in this nation and around the world,” Wall said.
