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Catholic Weekly
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2 November 2003
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New cardinal-electors
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Mother Teresa
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Oath of Fidelity
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The Italian connection
New deal for deaf high school students
New college Campus
US post
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‘Give generously’ appeal call
All Catholics are being urged to “give generously” to the Charitable Works Fund Appeal, which will be held in parishes in the archdiocese of Sydney this weekend (November 1-2).
The request comes from the secretary of the fund committee, Mons Kerry Bayada, who says that donations of more than $2 are 100 per cent tax deductible.
The Charitable Works Fund is the main source of funds for charitable works in the archdiocese.
Other dioceses in NSW operate similar funds to assist with the financing of their charitable activities.
The archdiocese’s financial controller, Michael Moore, says that in the year to June 30 the Charitable Works Fund provided $5.3 million in recurrent funding to bodies including $0.5 million for seminarian tuition fees, $0.7 million to the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine to support catechists and Catholic students in state schools, $0.5 million for Catholic chaplaincy services in universities, hospitals and prisons and $0.5 million to aid Centacare with its social welfare services.
The funds overheads are kept to a minimum, Mr Moore says, with administration expenses representing less than three per cent of income in the year to June 30.
This compares favourably with some non-Church charities which have overheads that absorb 10-30 per cent of income, he adds.
The main source of income for the Charitable Works Fund is donations arising from the fund’s three appeals in parishes each year – in May, August and November.