Special Collections

Retirement Fund for Religious

The Retirement Fund for Religious (RFR) distributes grants to religious institutes for the retirement needs of senior religious priests, brothers, and sisters. The fund also helps religious institutes plan and manage their retirement needs and programs. Catholic sisters, brothers and religious order priests—collectively known as women and men religious—have selflessly served for decades without significant financial compensation. However, due to escalating health-care costs, numerous U.S. religious communities face a substantial gap between their elderly members’ needs and the financial resources available for their care. Many religious orders currently experience insufficient retirement savings. These funds from the Retirement Fund for Religious collection provided financial assistance for retirement needs for 297 U.S. religious communities, including the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great. 

The National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO) has scheduled this year's collection in parishes throughout the Eparchy of Parma on December 9-10. In 2022, parishioners contributed $3,619.00 to the collection. Read this year's press release.

To learn more about the CCC and the projects it supports, visit www.retiredreligious.org.

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Peter's Pence

Peter’s Pence Collection, is a significant way to support the Universal Church. This collection, supported by Catholics around the globe, funds the ongoing activities of the Holy See and helps the Holy Father reach out to people suffering in our world. For more information on Peter’s Pence, please visit the Vatican’s Peter’s Pence website.

Catholic Communication Campaign

This collection helps people in the US and worldwide to connect with the Catholic faith and build community! Half of the collected funds remain in our Eparchy to support local communications projects. The other half supports the collective communication work of the bishops of the United States as well as other national projects in the United States and around the world. To learn more about the CCC and the projects it supports, visit www.usccb.org/ccc.

Catholic Home Missions

Nearly 40% of dioceses in the U.S. and its territories struggle to meet basic pastoral needs. Mission parishes across the country face similar challenges: small Catholic populations, great distances between parishes, and economic hardships that make it difficult for parishes to meet the pastoral needs of their communities. Your support of the Catholic Home Missions Appeal makes the day-to-day ministries of these parishes possible through grants to the eparchy for parish operations, seminary formation, training of parish catechetical leaders, youth ministry support, and more. For more information about the Catholic home missions, visit www.usccb.org/home-missions.

The Church in Central & Eastern Europe

This collection supports the training of seminarians and lay leaders, supporting social service programs, youth ministry, pastoral and catechetical centers, schools, church construction and renovation, and evangelization through Catholic media in Eastern and Central Europe. Our Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Churches in Europe directly benefit from this USCCB Collection. To learn more, visit https://www.usccb.org/committees/church-central-eastern-europe

The Holy Land & Our Christian Brethren

The Holy Land collection is taken up in most parishes on Good Friday. In the words of Paul VI is "not only for the Holy Places but above all for those pastoral, charitable, educational, and social works which the Church supports in the Holy Land for the welfare of their Christian brethren and of the local communities." Please visit the Franciscan Monastery's website for more information.

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Since February 2022, more than 10 million people have fled for their lives to neighboring countries—leaving behind loved ones, homes, jobs, and everything familiar. Please view the video above to hear from the people in Ukraine who are directly benefitting from your donations to this ongoing special collection. As of September 2022, we have raised $88,851.97.

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