Happy New Year 2022! With the new year, there are many reasons for excitement. Pastors and parishioners may include their semi-annual Catholic Strong distribution as one of them. We are proud to announce that another $1.75 million has gone back to parishes for support of their Catholic Strong case components.
This is our seventh distribution of funds back to the parishes since the first one in December 2018, when Saint Andrew the Apostle, Gibbsboro, was the lone parish to complete all the requirements by November 30, 2018. Cumulatively, we have now provided more than $19 million back to the parishes for work on their restricted areas of support. Of $40.6 million that was raised, we have collected more than $29 million. That’s more than 70 percent. Parishes that started their campaigns in 2018 would expect to complete their pledges in 2023, as gifts with five-year terms of fulfillment come to a close. Those that started in the later blocks of 2019 would expect to complete their redemption periods in 2024.
As you may recall, once a parish collects its goal amount, the distribution split of 70 percent to the parish and 30 percent to the Diocese changes to 80 percent for the parish and 20 percent for the Diocese for the overage. Two parishes anticipate reaching that milestone in the 2022 year. If payments continue as planned, Saint Andrew the Apostle and Mary, Queen of All Saints, Pennsauken, are expected to be the first to get there.
We are grateful for every dollar that comes in via this historic campaign, and we love to see the progress that our parishes are making as they use their dollars to make not only capital improvements, but strides for spiritual and evangelical growth as well, leading the Diocese of Camden to be ever Catholic Strong. May God bless every donor who is a part of this success!
Mariann Gilbride is the director of the diocesan Office of Development.
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