STRENGTHEN LOCAL PARISHES

A major focus area for Generation to Generation: Answer the Call is providing parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago with the opportunity to thrive for the next generation. Every parish within the archdiocese will participate in this comprehensive effort. Each parish will retain 50% of the funds it raises to support local parish initiatives. Parishes will discern their local strategic and capital priorities to allocate these funds. In addition, parishes will retain 80% of funds raised over goal, which provides further incentive for parish communities to maximize the local impact of this significant campaign.

“The thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.... I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.”

— Pope Francis