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BISHOP ASKS ASSISTANCE FOR HURRICANE RECOVERY
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has asked the parishes of the Diocese to conduct a collection for hurricane recovery at the Masses on the weekend of Aug. 26-27 as a follow up to the humanitarian relief collection that was taken last year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast.
The Bishop said “the task of recovery” was placing “even greater burdens” on people who were “overwhelmed by grief, dislocation and discouragement” after the natural disasters wreaked havoc on parts of Louisiana and Mississippi.
He reported that in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, $52 million in uninsured flood damage was inflicted on Church-owned structures the archdiocese is trying to open now, while reopenings have been delayed for buildings that had $70 million in uninsured flood damage.
In the Diocese of Biloxi, church buildings sustained more than $70 million in uninsured flood damage, with 428 of 433 structures destroyed or severely damaged.
Noting that the bishops of all U.S. dioceses authorized the Aug. 26-27 collection, Bishop DiMarzio said the funds raised will be used for recovery efforts in the afflicted areas.
He said he looked forward to the “traditional generosity” shown by parishioners in Brooklyn and Queens “to the cries of our brothers and sisters who have suffered so much.” # # # # #
8/15/06
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