Simply, America needs more priests...and your help.

The number of men responding to the call to the priesthood from America's mission dioceses may surprise you. According to our current data, there are over 400 seminarians right now, but some of these candidates cannot afford to pay their educational costs and their dioceses struggle to help them do so.

Catholic Extension's Parish Services division earns funds for mission dioceses. We share net proceeds from our parish calendar programs with mission dioceses in the U. S. for seminarian education. Each parish that uses our calendar helps us assist these future priests. To order, call 800-282-5055.

YOU CAN HELP BY choosing one of our beautiful parish calendars for your own parish. Participate in this essential and sacred work! Since most parishes or their sponsors are already distributing an annual Catholic calendar, using ours requires little or no sacrifice...JUST A CHOICE!

The following dioceses received financial assistance for seminarian education during our fiscal year ending 06/30/2007:

• Birmingham
• Anchorage
• Fairbanks
• Tucson
• Santa Rosa
• Pueblo
• Savannah
• Boise
• Salina
• Covington
• Alexandria
• Lake Charles
• Shreveport
• Marquette
• Jackson
• Helena
• Las Cruces
• Charlotte
• Bismarck
• Fargo
• Baker
• Sioux Falls
• Memphis
• Nashville
• Amarillo
• El Paso
• Laredo
• Lubbock
• San Angelo
• Salt Lake City
• Yakima
• Cheyenne
• Arecibo
• Caguas
• Mayaguez
• Ponce
• San Juan
• Agana
• Chalan Kanoa
• Samoa Pago Pago
• Caroline Islands