Thank you and your parish community for your generous donations totaling over $400,000 from last year’s Catholic Charities Campaign for Charity and Justice (formerly the Catholic Campaign for Human Development). Your support helped fund grants to 35 parishes and community-based works of charity across the Archdiocese.
Included here are details and materials for the promotion of the 2019 Catholic Charities Campaign for Charity and Justice second collection on November 23-24. The theme of this year’s collection is the “World Day of the Poor.”
Click here to download the full letter.
Enclosed are suggested petitions, bulletin announcements and bulletin inserts. We’ve also included a timeline for guidance on when to promote the campaign, and a social media guide with suggested posts for your parish’s Facebook, Twitter or Instagram pages.
Click here to download the Campaign for Charity and Justice flyer in English and Spanish.
Prepare for the most wonderful time of the year with Christmas decorations, candles, altar wine, new publications and clergy apparel. Click here to download the catalog.
In addition, click here for information on ordering the newly revised Order of Baptism of Children, here for Cardinal Dolan's new book, Who Do You Say I Am?, and here for supplies to clear sidewalks and parking lots of ice and snow.
Recently, Superintendent of Schools Michael J. Deegan invited his staff to a Morning of Reflection. The event was graciously hosted by the Dominican Sisters at their lovely Convent in Sparkill. Fr. Joseph Tierney, President of Cardinal Hayes High School led a discussion on servant leadership and celebrated Mass.
For more news, please see the video updates below from the Office of the Superintendent.
Msgr. James Vlaun announces the new relationship between the Catholic Faith Network and our Catholic schools.