Catalog of Ministries
Our catalog is continually growing. It is provided here to help inform and inspire you to become engaged in philanthropy. Our hope is that you will get involved. The rewards will be great.
If you wish to make an individual contribution to any organization in our catalog of ministries, please contact the organization directly. The catalog below can be searched by name, sorted by category or browsed alphabetically.
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Catholic Church Extension Society
Biography
The Catholic Church Extension Society exists to sustain and extend the Catholic Faith in poor and remote mission areas of the United States where diocesan resources are insufficient. Catholic Extension builds national awareness and raises funds for the Church’s needs in these communities so as to enable the essential mission of Catholic evangelization.
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With the help of generous donors, since 1905 more than $450 million has been distributed to mission dioceses to assist church building and repair, missionary salaries, seminarian education, evangelization and outreach programs, campus ministry and disaster relief.
Catholic Extension donations assist in the construction and repair of church buildings – to date more than 12,000 across the U.S.
Grants to parishes for religious education programs are critical in passing the Faith on to the next generation of Catholics.
Each year Catholic Extension helps nearly 400 future priests pay for the cost of their seminary education and provides grants for lay ministry formation.
Donations help fund the salaries of priests, religious and laity who minister to Catholics in poor, remote regions.
The sacraments, religious instruction and counseling are provided at more than 118 college campuses with grants from Catholic Extension.
Catholic Extension donations come to the aid of struggling parishes when disaster strikes their communities.
Catholic Distance University
Biography
??Using distance education, Catholic Distance University educates learners worldwide in theology, the liberal arts, and faith development for the growth of faith in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Catholic Family Services
Biography
Guided by the teachings of Jesus Christ. Catholic Family Services supports the healing and improved mental health for families and children of all backgrounds through professional counseling and psychiatric services.
Catholic Family Services, a non-profit agency, was originally established in 1955 by the St. Vincent de Paul Society with the goal of strengthening the family unit. Today, Catholic Family Services continues this vision by providing the following programs and services:
• Office Based Counseling
• School Partnership Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Psychiatry
• Community Education
• Training Program
Catholic Foundation of Maine
Biography
The mission of the Catholic Foundation of Maine is to provide Catholics with the opportunity to financially support the vitality of parishes and other Catholic organizations, institutions and ministries within the state of Maine now and in the future.
Catholic Leadership Institute
Biography
Catholic Leadership Institute provides bishops, priests, deacons and lay persons in the Roman Catholic Church with world-class, pastoral leadership formation and consulting services that strengthen their confidence and competence in ministry, enabling them to articulate a vision for their local church, to call forth the gifts of those they lead, and to create more vibrant faith communities rooted in Jesus Christ.
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Biography
CLINIC, a subsidiary agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), is a non-profit organization. Incorporated in 1988, its mission is to enhance and support the legal immigration work of the Catholic Church in the United States. CLINIC expands legal services available to immigrants by supporting a nationwide network of diocesan immigration programs that has grown from 17 to 152 programs with legal offices in over 250 sites. Each year, CLINIC’s member programs represent more than 100,000 low-income immigrants. To protect at-risk women, children and families, and to make the immigration system more fair and humane, CLINIC engages in advocacy and public education projects; operates a national naturalization program to promote immigrant citizenship; and provides selected direct services to individual immigrants, including foreign born Catholic priests, sisters, brothers, and seminarians, as well as needy immigrants and asylum-seekers held in immigration detention. CLINIC’s Board of Directors includes nine Catholic bishops and two women religious. CLINIC’s Catholic identity infuses every aspect of its service. Its programs are based upon Catholic social teaching, which for over 100 years has promoted the human dignity of immigrants.
Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) (New York, NY)
Biography
Catholic Medical Mission Board’s inception dates to 1912. It is a charitable non-profit organization working to make health care available to the world’s needy. CMMB’s medical volunteer, donated medicines, HIV/AIDS, child survival and neglected tropical diseases programs focus on making health care available to all without discrimination. Over the last decade, CMMB has provided more than $1 billion in support to help those in more than 100 countries. In the United States, CMMB has offices in New York City and Washington, D. C. Globally, it has offices in Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Peru, South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia.
Catholic Memorial School
Biography
Mission Statement
Founded in 1957, Catholic Memorial is a college preparatory school for boys founded in the spirit of Blessed Edmund Rice and guided by the Essential Elements of an Edmund Rice Christian Brothers Education. Our faith and learning
community is dedicated to transforming boys’ lives though academics, arts, athletics, and campus ministry. We
challenge students to pursue excellence, embrace Gospel values and lead through service.
We enroll 615 boys in grades 7-12 and award over $4.5 million in financial aid to 66% of our students. Students
complete over 16,000 hours of community service annually and participate in domestic and international Brother
Edmund Rice Service Initiative trips often with brother Blessed Edmund Rice schools. Approximately 50% of CM seniors enroll in Catholic colleges after graduation. We offer 40 teams across 15 sports and have won 39 team state
championships and 51 individual state athletic championships. CM’s Speech & Debate Program, led by Br. Anthony
Cavet, has produced countless champions including team state champions in five of the last six years.
Catholic Men’s Leadership Alliance
Biography
To equip lay leaders to better evangelize, instruct and disciple men to a greater relationship with Christ.
Catholic Migration Services, Inc.
Biography
Catholic Migration Services sees its mission as welcoming the stranger in our midst by our commitment to empowering underserved immigrant communities in Brooklyn and Queens regardless of religion or ethnicity. We provide comprehensive pastoral, educational, advocacy and legal services to advance equality and social justice in a changing and diverse population. Catholic Migration Services Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and provides all its services without regard to religion, immigration status, race, or ethnicity.
Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA)
Biography
Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) was founded by the Holy Father to share the love of Christ with the churches and peoples of the East. We work for, through and with the Eastern Catholic Churches to identify needs and implement solutions. We connect you to your brothers and sisters in need. Together, we build up the Church, affirm human dignity, alleviate poverty, encourage dialogue — and inspire hope.
Catholic Negro American Mission Board
Biography
A commission was established by the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore for the Catholic missions among the African and indigenous peoples, to raise and distribute the funds collected for this purpose annually throughout the United States. The incorporation by the hierarchy in 1907 was designed to foster a missionary spirit among Catholics.
The legacy of Mother Katharine Drexel, canonized in 1980, lives on through the continued activities of the Catholic Negro American Mission Board.
Catholic Pro-Life Community
Biography
The mission of the Catholic Pro-Life Community is to educate, unite, and mobilize Catholics and people of good will to end abortion and restore respect and legal protection for every human life from conception until natural death.
Catholic Radio Association, Inc.
Biography
The purpose of the Catholic Radio Association is to serve the Church in its mission
to bring all people to holiness in Jesus Christ by assisting and uniting Catholic
radio apostolates to reach more people with efficacious programming.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) (Baltimore, MD)
Biography
Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged outside the country. Today in more than 80 countries around the world, the activities of CRS reflect the Gospel of Jesus Christ as it pertains to the alleviation of human suffering, the development of people and the fostering of charity and justice in the world.
Catholic Theological Union at Chicago
Biography
Catholic Theological Union, the largest Catholic graduate school of theology and ministry in the United States, was founded in 1968 in the renewed spirit and vision of the Second Vatican Council. Through its internationally-renowned faculty, CTU educates over 500 women and men annually—ordained and lay, international and ethnically diverse— for service in the church and to the world. The primary mission of the Catholic Theological Union is the academic and pastoral formation of students preparing for priesthood and a variety of other ministries in the United States and throughout the world. The school also provides continuing theological education for clergy, religious, and lay persons. CTU is committed to theological education and scholarship within a community of faith through interaction with a living Catholic tradition and ecumenical, interfaith, and cross-cultural perspectives and resources.
Catholic Volunteer Network
Biography
Founded in 1963, Catholic Network of Volunteer Services (CNVS) is a national membership organization of nearly 200 Christian volunteer and mission programs that fosters and promotes full-time national and international service opportunities for people of all backgrounds, ages and skills. CNVS supports and enhances the work of its membership by providing training and resources, networking opportunities, and national advocacy.
Catholic Volunteer Network
Biography
Catholic Volunteer Network is a national membership organization of Christian volunteer and mission programs that fosters and promotes full-time national and international service opportunities for people of all backgrounds, ages and skills. Catholic Volunteer Network supports and enhances the work of its membership by providing training and resources, networking opportunities, and national advocacy. Catholic Volunteer Network represents 200 member volunteer programs, which collectively place more than 19,000 volunteers annually in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and in 112 countries worldwide.
Catholic Youth Foundation USA
Biography
Catholic Youth Foundation USA serves the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry by providing financial resources at the local, diocesan, regional, and national levels to promote effective and innovative youth ministry to assure a faithful future.
Our goals include:
Supporting the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry in their ministry to young people
Providing scholarships for young people to attend the National Catholic Youth Conference and for adult leaders to attend the National Conference on Catholic Youth Ministry
Awarding grants for youth ministry projects
Aiding in the development of youth ministry programs for culturally diverse communities
Providing outreach to youth in crisis
Training youth ministers
Catholics Come Home
Biography
Catholics Come Home, Inc. is an independent non-profit Catholic apostolate that creates effective and compassionate media messages and broadcasts them nationally and internationally, in order to inspire, educate and evangelize inactive Catholics and others, and invite them to live a deeper faith in Jesus Christ, in accord with the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church.
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