Philadelphia, Pa., May 5, 2010 / 17:55 pm
Cardinal Justin Rigali presented a check for over $1.8 million to the president of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) on Wednesday for aid efforts for earthquake victims in Haiti. He declared the gift an expression of “very beautiful and profound love.”
The Archbishop of Philadelphia presented the check to CRS president Ken Hackett at Incarnation of Our Lord Parish in the Olney section of Philadelphia.
The parish has a large number of parishioners personally affected by the devastating January earthquake. Attendees, who included some of the approximately 2,300 Haitian Catholics in the archdiocese, sang hymns in Haitian Creole.
The money was raised through special collections at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s 267 parishes, a CRS press release says.