MICHIGAN
Detroit Free Press
By Niraj Warikoo
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer
Catholics in metro Detroit have raised $107 million so far as part of an ongoing fund-raising campaign, the Archbishop of Detroit announced Wednesday night in Livonia.
Speaking to hundreds after services at St. Michael the Archangel church, Archbishop Allen Vigneron said that 71,500 Catholic households across the region have contributed to the campaign, called Changing Lives Together. Catholic leaders say they hope the campaign, which started in 2011 and concludes at the end of the year, will raise $135 million total.
“Working together … we have become stronger,” Vigneron said. “The parishioners in the Archdiocese of Detroit have responded generously. … They’re giving their parishes the resources to be able to share Christ, and that is what’s important. I’m so grateful that so many people want to be a part of that.”
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