Special Collections

The Retirement Fund for Religious provides grants to support senior Catholic priests, brothers, and sisters who have served for decades with little financial compensation. Rising healthcare costs have left many U.S. religious communities with inadequate retirement savings. In 2025, the fund assisted 297 communities, including the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great.

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 enables the Holy Father to respond with emergency financial assistance to requests to aid the neediest throughout the world – those who suffer as a result of war, oppression, and natural disasters. For more information on Peter’s Pence, please visit the Vatican’s Peter’s Pence website.

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

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 Horizons and other 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.

The Holy Land collection is taken up in most parishes on Good Friday. In the words of Paul VI, it's "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.

Nearly 40% of dioceses in the U.S. face challenges meeting basic pastoral needs due to small Catholic populations, remote locations, and financial hardship. This appeal supports these communities through grants for parish operations, seminary formation, catechetical leadership, youth ministry, and more. For more information about the Catholic home missions, visit www.usccb.org/home-missions.