Catholic Extension Annual Report 2022

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WHAT’S INSIDE:
15 years of progress pg. 4-5
The best is yet to come,
and here is why.
2022 Highlights pg. 6-7
Managing operations pg. 8-11
Building churches pg. 12-15
Developing leaders pg. 16-17
Innovating ministries pg. 18-21
The future pg. 22-25
Our mission pg. 26
Leadership pg. 27
Financial Report pg. 28-31
Dear Friends,
It is hard to imagine that 15 years have elapsed since I became
president of Catholic Extension. When the Holy See appointed me
to my first five-year term, I believed that Catholic Extension—with
all of its rich history in American Catholicism—had great potential
to be a major force of transformation in our country.
My conviction has proven to be correct.
Throughout my time at Catholic Extension, I have had the opportunity
to meet so many truly aspirational people who, despite being poor
and disadvantaged in so many senses of the word, nonetheless
possess the greatest wealth possible: the gift of faith. Our faith
reminds us that we are more than our circumstances, meaning
that there is a deeper purpose to our lives that propels us forward
into a future filled with hope, no matter how bleak the present
may look.
That is why our mission of building vibrant and transformative
Catholic faith communities continues to hold so much potential.
Many forces seek to pull us apart, dispirit us and discourage us,
but faith communities have the ability to change hearts, lives
and indeed society. Faith invites us to experience our oneness
with God and oneness with each other, and this unity is stronger
than all the forces of darkness and despair that exist around us.
So much has changed since I first came to Catholic Extension.
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Smartphones were in their infancy. Now they have taken over every
facet of our existence.
We still hailed cabs. We talked instead of texted. No one knew the
names of Siri or Alexa. Facial recognition and artificial intelligence
technologies were only known to us in sci-fi movies.
Amid these revolutions, our vital mission has remained the same and
it is more relevant than ever. Even though our world is as connected
as ever through technology, we are more isolated and alone than
ever before. Community has always been a basic human need, and
Catholic Extension creates hubs of community and encounter across
our country. Likewise, in a society where shouting has become the
norm instead of dialogue, we are creating places where bridge-building
must occur. And, in a world where cruelty often reigns, we are creating
oases of mercy and compassion.
For those of you who have journeyed with me over these 15 years,
I ask for your renewed commitment. Jesus sends us out two by two,
and you are the other disciple on this journey.
In 2022 the Holy See appointed me to another five-year term. I firmly
believe that Catholic Extension will accomplish even more in the next
five years than in the previous 15 thrilling years.
As you will see in this report, there is so much momentum, energy
and goodwill that has been built up. And we are on the precipice of
accomplishing so much more, which will surely shape our future.
Father Jack Wall meets with Jean Fedigan, Catholic Extension’s
2022-2023 Lumen Christi Award recipient, who founded Sister José
Women’s Center to extend God’s love and care to trafficked and
homeless women in the Diocese of Tucson, Arizona.
I hope that in reading this annual report you gain a sense of this
growing momentum, which is resulting in our accelerated ability to
have a greater impact on our beloved Church and country with each
passing year.
You have helped us write this beautiful and compelling story. Join
us for the next amazing chapter. I am convinced that the best is
yet to come.
Yours in Christ,
Reverend John J. Wall
President, Catholic Extension
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15 years of progress
Father Jack Wall’s tenure as Catholic Extension’s president
2007-2011
LAYING THE FOUNDATION
The Holy See named Father Wall
the president of Catholic Extension.
Our staff began to branch out of
Chicago to build a greater national
presence by opening regional
offices in Southern California, Texas,
South Florida and New York City.
2012-2017
INVESTING
IN THE FUTURE
We launched strategic
initiatives that support
critical needs of the
Church, such as our
Mission Diocese
Fund, LLC, a pooled
investment fund for
poor dioceses currently
with $230 million under
management, and our
U.S.-Latin American
Sisters Exchange
Program, which sends
sisters to underserved
areas of the country.
In 2011, Bishop Edward J. Burns from
the Diocese of Juneau, Alaska visited
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In 2010, Father Ed Kohler received the Lumen
Christi Award for his ministry as pastor of Little
Flower Parish that serves the Blackfeet Indian
Reservation in Browning, Montana.
We supported the
formation of a new
generation of Church
leadership through
more than a dozen
university partnerships
that supported the
education of lay
leaders, seminarians
and religious sisters.

2018-2022
GROWING THE IMPACT
Over 40 Catholic sisters served in
the initial U.S.-Latin American Sisters
Exchange Program to uplift Hispanic
faith communities across our country.
In 2022 the financial impact
of our work ($227 million)
was more than 10 times
what it was 15 years ago.
70% of our current donors
have joined Catholic
Extension in the last five
years, creating a strong
foundation for the future.
Father Jack Wall celebrated Mass with
Hispanic lay leaders from 35 dioceses.
In Washington, D.C. Catholic
Extension’s chancellor, Cardinal Blase
J. Cupich, and Cardinal Wilton Gregory
congratulate the Spirit of Francis Award
honoree Sister Carol Keehan, D.C.
In Houston Raye G. White receives the Spirit of Francis
Award from Father Jack Wall. They are joined by Trini
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2022 HIGHLIGHTS
Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop
Christophe Pierre announces
Father Jack Wall has been
appointed by the Holy See to
another five-year term as
president of Catholic Extension.
This represents Father Wall’s
fourth term as president.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Catholic
Extension helped our U.S. Ukrainian Catholic
leaders with their pastoral and humanitarian
response to their Ukrainian homeland and
to the refugees arriving in America.
$1 million is raised and provided to the
U.S. Ukrainian Church.
Extension’s radio tour with Ukrainian
Catholic Bishop Bohdan J. Danylo
reaches 45 million people.
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Q1
Q2

In addition to providing 30 scholarships and support to
families impacted by the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas,
Catholic Extension organizes letters from the survivors,
which are personally delivered to Pope Francis.
The Holy See responded to these letters on October 5,
2022 with these words: “His Holiness will remember
the students, their families and all those suffering
from the recent act of violence in Uvalde in his prayers.
Commending each of them to the protection of Mary,
Mother of the Church, His Holiness imparts his blessing.”
Through an initiative
funded and organized
by Catholic Extension,
five bishops of Puerto
Rico gather for the
first interdiocesan
oversight committee
to officially commence
the reconstruction
of the first of nearly
1,000 churches and
schools damaged
by hurricanes and earthquakes. The program will
result in $400 million in federal grants to rebuild
churches in Puerto Rico.
The 45th Lumen Christi Award was presented to Jean
Fedigan in the Diocese of Tucson, Arizona, honoring her
incredible witness of love and care for the homeless
and trafficked women served at the community center
she founded.
Q3
Q4
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MANAGING OPERATIONS
3,000
2,500
2,000
Our operation remains
lean even as our activity
and impact grow.
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1,500
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Growing output with consistent headcount
The “activities line” captures Catholic Extension’s events and occasions of financial support that benefit
Church ministries, leaders and other projects. It demonstrates that as the level of activity increased to support
the Church, Catholic Extension’s staffing levels have remained constant. Catholic Extension fulfills its mission
on a decidedly lean operation, so even though its activities and outreach have increased, headcount has not.
Staff
Activities
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Catholic Extension’s
mission supports
15 million Catholics
in 87 dioceses.
In 2022 alone we...
ATTRACTED
6,000 New donors
FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED
1,500 Communities
HELD
103 On-site gatherings
with church leaders
SOLD
2.5 Million
religious calendars
In addition, our programs’ collective financial
impact on the Church was $227.1 million just
last year (as seen on page 28).
Our work is expansive and the impact is real, but
Catholic Extension does not receive a penny of
support from any federal or state government for
its own operations.
We accomplish our mission with just
46 staff members.
When Father Wall became president of Catholic
Extension in 2007, he inherited an organization
of 70 people. After establishing a vision of what
he hoped to accomplish, we completed an
organizational analysis to look at the staffing
needed to attain his ambitious strategic goals.
A carefully thought-out reorganization called for a
team of less than 50 people—a staffing level the
organization has maintained for 15 years, even as
our financial impact and support to dioceses have
GENERATED
350 Media placements
reaching more than 75 million people
Catholic Extension staff visited Sacred Heart Catholic School in Uvalde, Texas.
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For us to be effective
partners to these
faith leaders, our
work requires us to
think strategically,
harness technology
wisely and develop
strong relationships
nationally.
Photo caption
Dr. Don Bouchard provides holistic care of children and families at the rural health clinic,
Holy Family Healthcare, in Hartford, Michigan.
exponentially increased. Moreover, overhead
expenses have remained below what they would
have been had we not reorganized all those
years ago.
We are motivated to work as hard as we
do because we know that any challenges
we face can pale in comparison to the
Catholic communities we serve, such as:
• The overworked priest who travels
hundreds of miles a week to offer the
sacraments.
• The religious sister taking a vow of
poverty in order to serve the poorest
of our society.
• The lay volunteers who spend
their days in prisons and hospitals,
bringing hope and healing.
For us to be effective partners to these
faith leaders, our work requires us to think
strategically, harness technology wisely
and develop strong relationships nationally.
To that end, the past 15 years have been defined
by an unpreceded, organization-wide effort
to create new systems designed to capture
meaningful data to improve Catholic Extension’s
impact, operate more efficiently and reach new
heights. These years of system building have
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allowed us to learn, adapt and prognosticate
like never before.
We also began collecting extensive
demographic and operational data on our
dioceses and Catholic communities to learn
more about them—both their struggles and
their opportunities for growth. With this
information we created a data warehouse
that informs many of our strategic decisions.
In turn, this helps us reach more people
all with the goal of helping Church leaders
who do the heavy lifting on the front lines
of ministry.
We introduced new financial management
systems and banking relationships that
enable us to appropriately manage
our resources and maximize support to
our dioceses.
In the past decade and a half, Catholic Extension
also launched a comprehensive fundraising
strategy, including a major gifts program—
which had not existed previously but is now
our largest source of revenue. We also began a
formal public relations strategy to get our name
out to millions of people who had never heard
of us, but who might be willing to support us
and the Church’s inspiring activities among
the poor in the poorest regions.
We expanded our board of governors and
populated it not only with brilliant leaders
in ministry but also with business leaders
from major corporations who bring us their
incredible expertise.
All of these new systems, partners and
collaborators allow us to remain a lean staff
while fulfilling a mission that is national in scope
and capable of creating an immense impact.
We remain a flexible organization that is able
to adapt to the evolving needs of the Church.
With each passing year, we seek to continually
raise the bar of excellence.
(Left) Catholic Extension built St. Ann’s Catholic Mission in Manchester, Kentucky.
(Above) Father Patrick McGuire travels many miles to celebrate Mass at St. Anthony
Catholic Mission in Zuni, New Mexico.
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BUILDING CHURCHES
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Extension dioceses
We’ve
built more
facilities
than most
major franchises,
and we are
still building.

Since its founding in 1905, Catholic Extension has helped
or is helping to build or repair 13,500 churches in the
United States. That is a lot compared to any national organization
in the United States today.
That means that Catholic Extension has
helped build more structures in the
United States than Taco Bell and Wendy’s
restaurants combined! There are also more
Extension-funded church buildings than
Dunkin’ shops or 7-Eleven stores from sea
to shining sea!
But more than satisfying peoples’ physical
hunger, we are building structures that satisfy
the soul of America. Many saintly and holy
people have emerged from the churches
we’ve helped build or repair. Likewise, many
hearts and lives have been transformed by
the presence of these churches.
For example, we supported the building
of St. William Catholic Church (1952) in
Durant, Oklahoma where Blessed Stanley
Rother, a martyr for the faith and future
saint, first served as a young priest.
We built Sacred Heart Catholic Church
(1906) and School (1912) in Uvalde, Texas—
two institutions that today are powerfully
serving a community shattered by a mass
shooting of children in May 2022.
We supported the rebuilding of St. Peter
the Apostle Catholic Church in Pascagoula,
Mississippi after it was destroyed by
Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This parish is
proudly known as home to numerous African
American priests and sisters throughout
the country.
The list goes on and on, confirming that
what happens in a church building does
not stay in a church building. Rather, it
ripples far beyond its four walls, often for
generations.
But more than
satisfying peoples’
physical hunger,
we are building
structures that
satisfy the soul of
America.
Catholic Extension supported the building of
St. William Catholic Church in Durant, Oklahoma.
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Some people are dumbfounded by the fact
that Catholic Extension continues to help
build and repair churches in the United
States. Shouldn’t we be closing churches?
Aren’t fewer people going to Mass? Isn’t
the Catholic Church shrinking its footprint
in this country?
In many places, the answer is yes. But the
opposite is also true in so many dioceses
supported by Catholic Extension. Some
dioceses, in fact, cannot build churches
fast enough.
There are regions where the Catholic
population is not only growing but
exploding—the West and Southwest in
particular added 2.5 million Catholics
in the past 15 years. Yet these growing
Catholic communities are often also in the
poorest places, and the resources needed
to build them can take years to collect—
hence the need for support from Catholic
Extension. One of the most consistent
things dioceses tell us is they need help
building and repairing their churches to
(Left) Catholic Extension built
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
in Uvalde, Texas in 1906.
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(Left) Catholic Extension helped the
parishioners of St. Peter the Apostle
Catholic Church in Pascagoula,
Mississippi rebuild after Hurricane
Katrina in 2005.
(Below) Immaculate Conception Parish
in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico suffered severe
storm damage, but it will be rebuilt with
Catholic Extension’s recovery program.
accommodate more people. Requests to
build church facilities more than doubled
in 2022, as the Church emerged from the
COVID-19 pandemic and building costs
steeply rose. Many new church facilities
that we have supported in recent years,
especially those in the West and Southwest,
are the size of airplane hangars and seat
roughly 1,000 people at a time.
We are also building stronger, more energyefficient
facilities. For example, in Puerto
Rico, Catholic Extension’s recovery program
enabled the dioceses to win a competitive
proposal of $50 million that will enable
schools and parishes to build more windresistant,
solar-powered structures. These
new structures will be able to withstand
future disasters when the power grid goes
down and buildings are destroyed.
In 2022 nearly 100 churches were completed
or had construction begin with Extension’s
support. Each will be adorned with Catholic
Extension memorial plaques in their hallways
or vestibules, reminding all who pass through
their doors of our generous donors who help
build the Church’s physical infrastructure
to serve the “spiritual infrastructure” of our
country for future generations.
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DEVELOPING LEADERS
How do poor dioceses with many
seminarians afford education costs?
We have a creative solution.
Catholics believe that the
priesthood was instituted
by Christ at the Last Supper.
Since then, it has been the Church’s
responsibility to form and prepare those called
to share in the ministerial priesthood.
Today, priests require six to eight years of
formal training. For many poor dioceses that
Catholic Extension supports, the estimated
$45,000 per year to educate, house and feed
a seminarian is an enormous expense. In the
Catholic tradition, the Church sponsors the
education of its seminarians, who in turn commit
to a lifetime of service (and obedience) with
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little financial reward. While the investment of
education in seminarians eventually pays off
through the lifelong service of the priest, the
up-front cost is no less daunting.
This is especially true in Extension dioceses,
many of which are the nation’s leaders in
recruiting new, “homegrown” diocesan priests.
The Diocese of Little Rock, Arkansas, for
example, with only approximately 150,000
Catholics, has ordained 44 new priests just in
the past 15 years. For the sake of comparison,
the country’s largest archdioceses, with
millions of Catholics, would each have had
to ordain more than 1,000 diocesan priests
in the same 15-year period to keep pace
(Above) Father Brian McCaffrey prostrates during his ordination to the priesthood
in the Diocese of Salina, Kansas. Catholic Extension supported his education.
with the Diocese of Little Rock. None have
exceeded 200 ordinations, according to the
Official Catholic Directory.
This means that financially strapped, yet
seminarian-rich dioceses like Little Rock require
innovative funding solutions, such as building
assets that exist in perpetuity for this reoccurring
financial need.
Father McCaffrey shares a special moment with
his mother on the day of his ordination.

(Right) Father Martin Ma Na Ling was ordained a priest in 2022 after Catholic
Extension supported his studies in the Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky.
That is why in 2012 Catholic Extension launched
the Seminarian Endowment Challenge, an
initiative to help dioceses raise money for
seminarians while building up endowments
to support seminarians. These endowments
lessen the need to fund seminarians’ education
from their constrained and modest operating
cash flows.
With so many competing needs, it can be hard for
poor dioceses to start an endowment. Therefore,
Catholic Extension will offer a diocese a $50,000
matching challenge, tasking it to raise at least
that amount of money in 12 months through
gifts of $1,000 or more from its local Catholics.
For many participating dioceses a $1,000 gift
threshold is quite challenging, but it encourages
the cultivation of donors within the diocese.
The Seminarian Endowment Challenge has
been an unequivocable success during its
first 10 years. With the $3 million in matching
funds offered by Catholic Extension over
the past decade, 47 participating dioceses
have raised nearly $8 million! What’s more,
they’ve seen substantial endowment growth
over that period.
The permanently endowed funds give these
dioceses an ability to continue focusing their
energy on recruiting and encouraging the next
generation of priests, while not having to worry
(as urgently) about the financial burden of
their education.
In creating such a program, Catholic Extension
has helped the Catholic Church tackle an
enormous financial need, by starting small
and letting the compounding effects of its
efforts and investments bear increasingly
greater fruit over time.
This program has allowed the poorest dioceses
in America to be much stronger financially than
they were just 10 years ago.
At the end of the 12 months, Catholic Extension
will not only match the funds the diocese
has raised for its seminarian endowment,
but it will also provide a safe investment
vehicle for it to do so. Our Mission Diocese
Fund, LLC is a pooled investment fund that
professionally manages long-term assets of
poor dioceses. To date, the fund has $230 million
under management, including newly endowed
funds for seminarian education.
Millions
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$15
$10
$5
$0
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INNOVATING MINISTRIES
New education
programs where
Catholic schools
do not exist.
Sister Vicky Beaz-Díaz runs an after-school program in one of the
poorest neighborhoods in the Diocese of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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Supporting the education of
young people, especially
in poor and underserved
communities, has always
been a priority and preoccupation
of the entire U.S. Catholic Church.
Ingrained in the American Catholic psyche
is the desire to give each new generation a
hand up through quality education, which
helps young people develop skills and a love
of learning as well as deepen their character,
values and faith.
For more than 150 years, the Catholic Church’s
predominant model of providing quality
education was operating parish schools.
However, for many historical and economic
reasons, the accessibility and affordability of
Catholic schools have diminished considerably.
With enrollments shrinking and more Catholic
schools shutting their doors each year, the
Catholic Church is challenged to find new ways
to sustainably offer education to the millions of
children from poor and working-class families
that live in the communities it serves.
The Don Bosco Center allows students
to make gains in math, reading and
self-confidence.
Catholic Extension, to be clear, has not given
up on Catholic schools. Over the past 10
years we’ve partnered with the University of
Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education,
which has trained dozens of Catholic schools
in strategies to attract more Latino families,
resulting in thousands of new student
enrollments. And we’ve partnered with Loyola
Marymount University’s Center for Catholic
Education, which over the past 10 years has
educated 120 Catholic school administrators
from 40 dioceses, resulting in 80 percent being
promoted into higher administrative roles.
At the same time, we’ve worked with dioceses
to introduce alternative educational models
Father Jack Wall meets with a young student and his mom at an after-school
program at the Don Bosco Center in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
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Catholic Extension
has successfully
piloted various
innovative ways of
offering Catholic
education in
communities with
no Catholic schools.
outside traditional Catholic schools, which are
affordable and deliver measurable outcomes
for participating children and their families.
In partnership with various organizations
that possess great expertise and proven
educational methods, Catholic Extension
engages its donors nationwide to help expand:
• Summer learning programs,
• After-school education, and
• Early childhood and
family literacy programs.
Catholic Extension’s 87 dioceses represent the
most underserved regions of the country. There
are 50 percent more people living below the
Immigrant families participate in an early literacy program called
Mother Boniface Family Literacy in the Columbus, Georgia area.
poverty line in Extension dioceses compared
to the rest of the country, where nearly 4 million
young people under the age of 18 live in poverty.
Yet education attainment levels in these areas
are well below the national average, with only
17 percent of the population possessing a
bachelor’s degree.
We view this data as a call to respond with
creative solutions that will make a difference
in the lives of young people and their families.
The Don Bosco Center in Lawrenceburg,
Kentucky is among the new models of Catholic
education supported by Catholic Extension.
The after-school center serves children
who are on average two grade levels below
where they should be. But students served
by the center have made 1.6 years’ worth
of progress in just one school year. These
evidence-based outcomes show how effective
these programs can be. What’s more, they
provide cost-efficient ways for the Church
to serve vulnerable children—those being
bullied, undereducated and underestimated
who tend to fall between the cracks of our
education system.
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(Both left and below) Immigrant mothers read to their children at Mother Boniface Family
Literacy in the Columbus, Georgia area.
their children but also for themselves. They
express a sense of empowerment in being able
to support their children’s developing minds,
and they greatly appreciate the opportunity
to learn English. The parents feel incredible
gratitude. A father, Dario Avila, said of an
Extension-funded family literacy program,
“This has made a big difference in the life
of my son…as well as for me and my wife.
This will forever be known as the place where
my son’s education began.”
Now that Catholic Extension has successfully
piloted various innovative ways of offering
Catholic education in communities with no
Catholic schools, we hope to replicate and
scale these models in more underserved
areas across the country.
Likewise, with Extension support, immigrant
families have been participating in an early
literacy program, called Mother Boniface
Family Literacy, in the Columbus, Georgia area.
Parents learn English and begin the habit of
reading to their young children.
Early childhood is a unique time of development
in a person’s life that can have a lasting impact.
According to a 2019 study from Ohio State
University, young children whose parents
read them five books a day enter kindergarten
having heard about 1.4 million more words
than children who were never read to.
Parents enthusiastically articulate the benefits
of the family literacy program not only for
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THE FUTURE
Why does Catholic Extension
have so much HOPE?
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Acting in solidarity with and for the poor changes everything.
It changes us. It deepens our hearts and our understanding of the Church’s real
power. The distinction between the donor and receiver vanishes as we all become
beneficiaries of the transformative hope that our work generates. God pours out
this gift of hope to us through real people and in real time.
It has always been our experience that the
Church is enlivened from the edges, from places
of poverty, pain and exclusion, because those
are places where new hope also emerges.
The 1,500 faith communities supported by
Catholic Extension in 2022 help us see what
hope looks like in the flesh, presented to
us in many different forms and often amid
seemingly godforsaken circumstances.
We see hope in the poorest counties
of Appalachia.
On July 28, 2022 at 11 p.m., flash flooding
swamped Hazard, Kentucky and the surrounding
communities. The water ruined everything in
its path. Thirty-eight people died. There was
no water or power for days. Homes and
livelihoods were destroyed. The lone Catholic
church in this community is supported by
Catholic Extension. Mother of Good Counsel
Parish covers 500 square miles, in an area
where less than 1 percent of the population is
Catholic. Yet no one is denied help.
After the floods, some people came to the
church just to do their laundry. Some even lived
there while waiting for more permanent shelter.
In this area where there are no resident priests,
Lori Helfrich, the parish life director, was there
through it all. A member of the local Presbyterian
church said that Helfrich was central to her
well-being. Helfrich, she said, “knew what people
are crying in their pillows about.”
Helfrich has a Master of Divinity degree. But
on the wall of her office is not her degree
diploma but her framed baptismal certificate.
Baptism, which marks us as followers of Christ,
is the credential that allows her to be a
reverberation of hope in wounded places,
an incarnation of God’s active love.
There is HOPE in Appalachia.
(Left) Some migrant families in El Paso, Texas are found sleeping on rocks
outside when they first arrive to the U.S.
(Right) Catholic Extension supports the St. George Church faith community
in Jenkins, Kentucky.
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mom and dad, after risking everything on
their perilous trek, were finally safe at the
shelter. With their sense of human dignity
replenished, they could continue their
journey, knowing that there were good and
kind people willing to help them, like the
ones at the Catholic shelter in El Paso.
There is HOPE on the Texas border.
We see hope in the orchards of the
Pacific Northwest.
There is a bishop in Central Washington,
Joseph Tyson, who has attracted and ordained
many young priests during his tenure in the
Diocese of Yakima, which serves primarily
agricultural workers.
We see hope in Texas along the U.S.-
Mexico border.
A religious education center supported by
Catholic Extension in the Diocese of El Paso,
Texas was converted into a makeshift shelter
to accommodate the surge of migrants who
are otherwise left on the streets helpless and
penniless. Among the hundreds who passed
through the center last year was a 4 year-old.
She laid on a cot in a posture that any parent
would recognize as complete exhaustion.
The girl was wearing a ballerina outfit. She
had personally picked it out from the donated
clothing closet, which the shelter volunteers
had dubbed “JCPenney.”
When the tutu-clad girl awoke, she was no longer
a “migrant” running for her life, running from the
cartel. She was a little girl again, ready to play
in her new outfit. And she, her infant brother,
(Both above and right) Families line up for food outside a migrant shelter in Sacred Heart
Church in the Diocese of El Paso, Texas.
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(Left) Father Jesús Mariscal helped launch the Diocese of Yakima, Washington
seminarian migrant ministry program.
The bishop requires that, as preparation for
ordination, all seminarians must work side by
side in the orchards picking apples with migrant
workers. “Calluses before chalices” was how
he explained it. If a seminarian was unwilling to
lift a box of harvested apples, he would be unfit
to lift the body of Christ and all of the holy weight
it carries. Catholic Extension is supporting this
unique training experience for future priests.
When after some weeks a worker discovered
that her fellow laborer was preparing to be a
priest, she burst into tears. That a priest would
know the sweat, hard work and effort it took to
bring fruit from the orchard to the table touched
her heart. That our priests, like Jesus, would
know the beauty of the vine and the dignity of
the “work of human hands” in the fields, that
was truly a cause for joy. That was a church to
believe in.
There is HOPE in the Pacific Northwest.
Appalachia. The Texas border. The
Pacific Northwest.
From places where poverty, pain and struggle
abound—hope is found in abundance. When
you support Catholic Extension, you are
extending yourself to the abandoned, the
sorrowful and the powerless, where we know
the face of Jesus is visible and where we can
see hope in the most compelling ways. It is
there that we, as a Church, have been and
will always be at our best. We are a church of
hope. Hope is the true currency upon which
all of Catholic Extension’s activities depend.
Among the communities of this country that
Catholic Extension befriends and partners
with, there is hope. And so, we see a future
filled with hope that only grows brighter with
each passing year thanks to your generous
support.
(Below) Bishop Joseph Tyson visits with
children at the Literacy Wagon in the
Diocese of Yakima, Washington.
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OUR MISSION
Catholic Extension
works in solidarity
with people to build
up vibrant and
transformative
Catholic faith
communities
among the poor in
the poorest regions
of America.
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Sister Dolores Aviles, STJ, runs a camp for students in
Uvalde, Texas, where many families were looking for a
safe and loving environment for their children.

LEADERSHIP
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
CHANCELLOR
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich
Archbishop of Chicago
VICE CHANCELLOR
Most Reverend Gerald F.
Kicanas
Bishop Emeritus of Tucson
VICE CHAIR OF
COMMITTEES
AND SECRETARY
Elizabeth Hartigan Connelly
CDW
PRESIDENT
Reverend John J. Wall
Most Reverend Gerald R.
Barnes
Bishop Emeritus of
San Bernardino
Most Reverend Steven
Biegler
Bishop of Cheyenne
John W. Croghan
Rail-Splitter Capital
Management
Most Reverend Daniel E.
Flores
Bishop of Brownsville
Most Reverend Ronald
Hicks
Bishop of Joliet
Honorable James C. Kenny
Former Ambassador
to Ireland
Most Reverend Robert N.
Lynch
Bishop Emeritus of
St. Petersburg
Peter J. McCanna
Baylor Scott &
White Health
Michael G. O’Grady
Northern Trust
Corporation
Christopher J. Perry
CIVC Partners
Andrew Reyes
Great Lakes Coca-Cola
(A Reyes Holding
Company)
Sister Fatima Santiago, ICM
Proyecto Desarrollo
Humano
Karen Sauder
Google
Pamela Scholl
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Most Reverend Anthony B.
Taylor
Bishop of Little Rock
Most Reverend George L.
Thomas
Bishop of Las Vegas
Timothy Turner
Ryan Specialty/
RT Specialty
Most Reverend William A.
Wack, CSC
Bishop of Pensacola-
Tallahassee
Edward J. Wehmer
Wintrust Financial
Corporation
EXECUTIVE
LEADERSHIP
Thomas Gordon
Chief Operating Officer
Kevin McGowan
Chief Financial Officer
Joseph Boland
Chief Mission Officer
Amy Day
Vice President of Development
Thomas Riordan
Vice President of Mission
Partnerships
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2022 FINANCIAL REPORT
2022 Financial impact
DIRECT SUPPORT TO EXTENSION DIOCESES
Catholic Extension funding provided for vital Church
leaders and infrastructure
IN MILLIONS
2021
2022
$16.0 $16.7
IMPACT REVENUE
Additional revenues generated or received by Extension
dioceses when they participate in our strategic initiatives
ADDITIONS TO THE MISSION DIOCESE FUND, LLC
Funds designated for long-term investment and transferred
by Extension dioceses
PUERTO RICO FEMA OBLIGATED FUNDS
Funds awarded for rebuilding and improving damaged
churches and schools in Puerto Rico, resulting from
Catholic Extension’s recovery program
ADDITIONS TO THE CATHOLIC GIFT ANNUITY PROGRAM
New funds raised by Extension dioceses that are managed
by Catholic Extension, with the goal of expanding planned
giving opportunities for program participants
TOTAL
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$10.0
$38.0
$26.5
$1.5
$92.0
$14.0
$28.0
$167.0
$1.4
$227.1

2022
Financial
impact
BY REGION
WEST
MIDWEST
Supporting
87 Extension
dioceses in 35
states, one in
five Catholics
SOUTHWEST
SOUTH & EAST
REGION
Financial impact (in millions)
Puerto Rico/Caribbean $169.6
West $16.4
South & East $12.6
Southwest $11.5
Midwest $10.1
Multiregional $6.7
Pacific Islands $0.2
GRAND TOTAL $227.1
PACIFIC ISLANDS
Pago Pago (Samoa)
Caroline Islands
Marshall Islands
Chalan Kanoa
Agaña (Guam)
PUERTO RICO/
CARIBBEAN
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2022 Total sources of support
$1 of donor support leads to $3.71 in financial impact
7 %
14 %
Donations
Estate gifts
Investment earnings
Parish calendars
27 % 52 %
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Statement of
financial position
ASSETS
IN MILLIONS
Liabilities and net assets
LIABILITIES
IN MILLIONS
Charitable gift annuities $20.6
All other liabilities $26.1
TOTAL LIABILITIES $46.7
General investments $121.2
Charitable gift annuities $28.8
All other assets $47.2
TOTAL ASSETS $197.2
NET ASSETS
Without donor restriction $76.3
With donor restriction $74.2
TOTAL NET ASSETS $150.5
TOTAL LIABILITIES
AND NET ASSETS $197.2
Please contact Catholic Extension for audited financial statements.
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