Church invites inactive and others to consider "coming home"
Welcome Home! We've missed you.
That's the greeting Bishop David Ricken and other Catholics in Northeastern Wisconsin are extending to inactive Catholics and others ready for a faith community. Television and radio commercials, an informational Web site and parishes across the Diocese of Green Bay are working together to extend this invitation.
The TV commercials, paid for by private donors, are airing hundreds of times during
Bishop Ricken Welcomes Catholics Home
Lent, from morning programs to "primetime", on programs ranging from Oprah to the Olympics. It is estimated that each person living in Northeastern Wisconsin will see the commercials twice per viewing day.
Support the ministries, programs and services to thousands
With your help, the Bishop’s Appeal is sharing our faith with countless people throughout Northeastern Wisconsin and beyond. A gift to the Bishop’s Appeal truly changes lives.
Ministries receiving funds raised by the Bishop’s Appeal include: • Mental Health Counseling • Stewardship • Budget Counseling • Youth and Young Adult Ministry • The Compass, the diocesan newspaper • Many other programs
Catholic Relief Services supports quake relief in Haiti and Chile
Donations from parishes, individuals, and businesses to Catholic Relief Services to assist in Haiti since the Jan. 12 earthquake total $700,305.96, the Catholic Foundation for the Diocese of Green Bay reported. So far, CRS has received more than $90 million in donation.
CRS also is accepting donations to help those in Chile affected by the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the South American country on Feb. 27.
As long-time advocates of health care reform, the U.S. Catholic bishops continue to make the moral case for genuine health care reform that will protect the life, dignity, consciences and health of all, especially the poor and vulnerable. As debate continues in the Senate, the Bishops are keeping a close watch on the issues. Learn more about the health care debate, the latest developments, and what the Church is doing to promote just and moral national health care through the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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