Posted on 11/19/2008 7:37:33 AM PST by Columbo
Good news, any links for this?
Charleston Diocese’s collection will be directed to Catholic Charities of Charleston:
Birmingham Diocese will collect for the Church in Latin America:
Informative post: I give to the foodshelf of St. Vincent de Paul; I may just mark on a brown bag “for St. Vincent de Paul” and put a few jars of peanut butter in the bag. I’d bet that’d get their attention.
I have reasons not to look for confrontations with my Bp., but we sho' ain't donating to these irresponsible yayhoos.
My Bishop doesn’t know me from Martha Stewart, so I can expect to get a form letter in return :-). He’s very fond of form letters; we probably get 30 pieces of mail a year from the Diocese. Maybe I could offer a contribution for the postage bill!
Same here.
LOL. You wouldn't want to enable them, would you? Don't encourage them. Slip a little brochure on the paperless office into your envelope along with your offering. But don't let them have your email address.
From 1994-1997 (or so) I did a little "young adult" stuff in my parish, though I myself was already a senile adult. I STILL get young adult emails from the diocese.
I’ve been tempted to write to the Bishop and ask him to stop sending us all the reminders and thanks and stuff, but I’m afraid he’d feel obligated to write back and thank me for my thoughtful suggestion. I get the impression his mother was very strict about correspondence!
I’ve had to remind the Diocese of Tulsa that we moved several times since 2003, most recently earlier this year. “Dear Bishop Slattery, Thank you for thinking of us, but ...”
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