Full Pews, Empty Balance Sheets
There are parishes today that are thriving spiritually. Their pews are filled each week. Families gather. Children are baptized. Faith is being passed down, generation to generation.
Not a lack of belief, but a lack of means
These parishes are quietly approaching a breaking point. In low socioeconomic communities, parishioners give what they can, but it is not enough to meet the rising cost of maintaining aging buildings and essential ministries.
There are more Catholics in America today than 50 years ago. But for many, the human bond with their local church has weakened.
Believing Catholics of every age want to come home
This is about parents, grandparents, and lifelong believers who carry a deep love for the Church. People of good will who want to return to their Catholic faith, but who need to see that their parish will be there when they do.
“It’s more than a building. It’s what happens in a building.”
—Msgr. Charles Kosanke, Basilica of Ste. Anne de Detroit
Strengthen these parishes. Sustain the faith in them.
The Catholic Initiative is called to meet this challenge. By strengthening and sustaining these parishes, we ensure that the faith alive in them today will still be alive for generations to come.
So that believing Catholics of every age have a home to come back to.
Help preserve 325 years of faith
Your gift strengthens Ste. Anne de Detroit so that believing Catholics of every age have a home to come back to.
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