NEW JERSEY
The Record
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2014
BY JEFF GREEN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Amid a series of controversies, the Archdiocese of Newark is planning a $100 million fundraising campaign to support Catholic education, parishes and other initiatives.
Jim Goodness, spokesman for the archdiocese, said that the campaign would go on for several years and that officials were still working on the logistics and strategy.
Archbishop John J. Myers announced in a January letter to the archdiocese’s 1.3 million Catholics that half of the money raised during the capital campaign would go to the archdiocese and the other half to parishes.
The archdiocese would invest its half in long-term endowments for Catholic schools, struggling parishes, seminarians, clergy health care and other areas it regularly funds, Goodness said.
To prepare for the campaign, officials and an archdiocese consultant have conducted studies, spoken with pastors and sent out surveys to parishioners and clergy, Goodness said. The archbishop based his decision to let parishes control half of the money on the “candid feedback,” he said.
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