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Catholic Extension (also known as the Catholic Church Extension Society) is a national fundraising 501(c)(3) organization which supports and strengthens poor mission dioceses across the United States. They provide funding and resources to dioceses and parishes through programs and services investing in people, infrastructure and ministries.
Catholic Charities USA is the national voluntary membership organization for Catholic Charities agencies throughout the United States and its territories. [1] Catholic Charities USA is a member of Caritas Internationalis , an international federation of Catholic social service organizations. [ 2 ]
It is home to over 100 charitable organizations, run by many different religious orders, as well as by Catholic Charities of the archdiocese. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Among these numerous Catholic churches and cathedrals are notable. Notable ones include any that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places [1] or on state and local historic registers. There are 193 current Catholic cathedrals in the U.S., listed at List of the Catholic cathedrals of the United States.
Aid to the Church in Need's General Secretariat and Project Headquarters is in Königstein, Germany. With 23 national offices, Aid to the Church in Need provides aid to Catholic communities in around 140 countries around the world. In 2021 the foundation funded 5298 projects in 132 countries. [1]
Catholic spiritual teaching includes spreading the Gospel, while Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church is the largest non-governmental provider of education and medical services in the world. [1]
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. [1] There are more than 200 churches in the archdiocese, divided for administrative purposes into four episcopal regions, each headed by an auxiliary bishop, and 12 deaneries.
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with approximately 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide, as of 2017. [ 1 ] Lists