General
Catholic Home Missions Appeal Annual Report
THE CATHOLIC HOME MISSIONS PROGRAM SUPPORTS MISSION dioceses across the United States and its current and former territories. Home mission dioceses are locations where Catholics are too few and, in many cases, too poor to support their churches unassisted. But Catholics in mission dioceses persevere with great faith, often volunteering much time and talent
to parishes that have no paid staff or resident clergy. They give what they can, but local and personal economic situations require their parishes to rely on outside assistance. Contributions to the annual Catholic Home Missions Appeal provide this needed support. The Latin Rite dioceses and the Eastern Catholic eparchy featured in these pages all receive Catholic Home Missions funding for multiple ministries. Each section focuses on just one of those ministries to describe it in more detail.