By OSV News
The Catholic Relief Services Collection will be taken up in most of the nation’s Catholic dioceses March 29-30; last year, the Diocese of Camden collected $78,276 for this campaign.
With recent cuts to overseas humanitarian aid, the annual collection used to serve the vulnerable in the United States and abroad has taken on “a very urgent significance,” said Bishop Daniel H. Mueggenborg, head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ national collections efforts.
The collection provides support for Catholic Relief Services – the overseas relief and development agency of the Church in the United States – as well as five other key Church-related entities meeting an array of social and spiritual needs:
• The Holy Father’s Relief Fund, which enables the pope to quickly assist disaster victims.
• The USCCB’s Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church, through which the bishops work to address the pastoral needs of U.S.-based Catholics of various cultural backgrounds.
• The USCCB’s Secretariat of Justice and Peace, which advocates on behalf of the poor while working for peace.
• The USCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services, which had, until Jan. 24, contracted with the federal government for decades to resettle refugees vetted by U.S. immigration and security authorities.
• Catholic Legal Immigration Network, or CLINIC, a nonprofit established by the U.S. bishops to provide legal aid to refugees and migrants – including immigrant Catholic clergy and religious, upon whom close to 90% of the nation’s Catholic dioceses rely.
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