2024

One Million Dollars Raised in One Year for Catholics Who Serve

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mr. Joseph Starshak, Chair of the Board of Directors, is happy to share the success of the Patrons of the Saint John XXIII Foundation. Created in October 2022 by Resolution of the Board of Directors, Patrons are individuals or couples who contribute/pledge a qualifying gift to the Foundation’s investment portfolio. The preeminent giving society of the Foundation, Patrons, by their gift, make a legacy investment in the future of the Foundation’s mission and ministry of nourishing the faith of Catholics in the Armed Forces and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers.

February 6, 2024 No Comments

U.S. Servicemen Hone Prayer Skills at Catholic Men’s Retreat in Europe

VALLENDAR, GERMANY – How to pray? How to grasp the beauty of a relationship with God? Those themes kindled a European retreat for U.S. Military-affiliated Catholic men over the weekend at the Schoenstatt Retreat Center in Vallendar, Germany. Nearly three dozen men from various military installations throughout Germany and an airman from RAF Lakenheath in Great Britain immersed themselves in the three days of prayer, spiritual conversation, Eucharistic adoration, confession, daily Mass, and on Saturday, Feb. 3, the Feast of St. Blaise, the blessing of throats.

February 4, 2024 No Comments

Father Marcel Taillon Named Interim Vocations Director

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS), will soon have a new interim Director of Vocations. He is Father Marcel Taillon, a priest of the Diocese of Providence, RI. Father Taillon starts his new ministry on April 15. He succeeds Father S. Matthew Gray, Ch, Capt, USAF, who was recently called back to his home Diocese of Charleston, SC, following two years as AMS Vocations Director, and is now deployed in the Middle East with the South Carolina Air National Guard.

January 30, 2024 No Comments

New Vocations Director Named

Father Marcel Taillon succeeds Father S. Matthew Gray, Ch, Capt, USAF, who was recently called back to his home Diocese of Charleston, SC, following two years as AMS Vocations Director.

January 30, 2024 No Comments

Future U.S. Military Leaders Join 51st Annual March for Life

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Dozens of future U.S. Army and Navy officers braved freezing temperatures, ice, wind, and snow in the Nation’s Capital on Friday to walk in the 51st annual March for Life—the second in a post-Roe America—along the National Mall. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D., Archbishop for the Military Services and President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), led the group of 40 cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and 36 midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, among others.

January 19, 2024 No Comments

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January 10, 2024 No Comments

Black and Indian Mission Office

January 28, 2024: The second collection for the Black and Indian Mission Office is taken up on the First Sunday of Lent to support the organization which is the embodiment of the Church’s concern for evangelizing the Black and Indian peoples of the United States. The funds are distributed as grants which support and strengthen evangelization efforts in dioceses throughout the United States, including the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

January 8, 2024 No Comments

Catholic Relief Services

March 10, 2024: This collection provides funding for Catholic Relief Services, the USCCB Offices of International Justice and Peace, Migration and Refugee Services, and Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees, relief work of the Holy Father, and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network.

January 7, 2024 No Comments

CRS Rice Bowl

Lent: February 14 – March 31, 2024 CRS Rice Bowl provides funding for Catholic Relief Services’ food security projects which support agriculture, nutrition, education, and self-sufficiency in communities around the world.

January 6, 2024 No Comments

Holy Week Collections

March 29, 2024:Installations are encouraged to continue the practice of taking up a collection on Palm Sunday for the AMS. They are also invited to support Christians in the Holy Land by donating to the Good Friday Collection.

January 5, 2024 No Comments

Military Catholic Young Adults Participate in SEEK24

Future U.S. Military leaders are among those seeking to “be the light” in a world of confusion, sin, and darkness at the SEEK24 Catholic Faith conference.

January 4, 2024 No Comments

Catholic Home Missions

April 28, 2024: The Catholic Home Missions Appeal primarily supports home mission dioceses, that is, those dioceses in the United States that are unable to offer their people the basic pastoral ministries of word, worship, and service without outside help. It may also give grants to other dioceses in the U.S. for particular projects, and to organizations and religious communities engaged in missionary work.