"I am impressed with the vision and commitment that characterizes FADICA’s work. Its conferences and projects are well conceived and its staff members are extremely informed and resourceful. As additional strength is the community of Catholic grant makers that FADICA brings together to share a wealth of knowledge in furthering our common goals.”
Steven M. Hilton, FADICA Member
President, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
“FADICA has done, and is doing, an extraordinary service. By bringing church leaders, scholars and other experts together with representatives of the charitable foundations, FADICA makes possible an intelligent, well-informed approach to Catholic philanthropy in a time of rapid change when important questions about Catholic life and institutions inevitably arise.”
Monika K. Hellwig (1929-2005)
Former President
Association Catholic Colleges and Universities
“Your association has enabled you to span a vast gamut of undertakings. The Holy See is very grateful for the concern to make philanthropy more effective in assisting the Catholic church to carry out her mission. I encourage you to maintain that spirit of collaboration which gives you added possibilities of generous service.”
Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
Anniversary Address to FADICA
“You have put your own resources at the service of the church, and more than that, you have done so in responsible and carefully ways by continually educating yourself ... all of what you do gives me heart and energy to continue my work for the church.”
Sr. Katarina Schuth, OSF
1995 FADICA Distinguished Catholic
Leadership Award Recipient
Author, Vocations Scholar
“FADICA may be seen as a late twentieth-century reflection of the generally prosperous society that gave it birth. It represents a genuine effort to strengthen and improve the church’s life in a way commensurate with its present needs.”
Msgr. John Tracy Ellis (1905-1992)
"FADICA has effectively represented lay philanthropic perspectives in its interaction with the hierarchy and with leaders of national and diocesan charity organizations . . . it has proved its worth as an astute judge of the lay philanthropic spirit.”
Professor Mary J. Oates, CSJ
Author,The Catholic Philanthropic
Tradition in America
“I have thoroughly enjoyed my association with FADICA. After working with FADICA for several years, I share the conviction that urban Catholic schools are beacons of hope for many of the nation’s poor.”
Dr. Robert Coles, MD
Harvard University
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
"I believe that Catholic schools hold a tremendous opportunity to model for the country and the world what is means to be “ the best schools” – schools that simultaneously hold students to standards of high achievement and that nurture and develop – also with rigor- the spiritual, social, and emotional skills that our networked, global world needs and so often finds lacking. I also believe that the Catholic philanthropic community through FADICA has been and will be an important influence in shaping the future of Catholic schools.”
Dr. Lorraine Ozar
Director, Center for Catholic School Effectiveness
Loyola University Chicago
“FADICA has been a great experience because of all the personal associations our family has made. It’s members are among our dearest friends. It’s been a great mixture of professional association and a real community of people who have touched our hearts.”
Thomas J. Donnelly, (1926-2011)
Former FADICA Board Chair
Mary Donnelly Foundation
“You live a life of communion with God if you allow love to be purified and deepened in community. You meet each other a few times a year. You know each other & you share. Somehow together you become a source of healing for the world.”
Fr. Henri Nouwen
Author
“You are asked for money, you are asked for help; people want your wisdom, but far more important I think for a group like FADICA is your companionship with the church.”
Fr. Howard Gray, SJ
Georgetown University
“Almost everything that I have learned about the Catholic church aside from what I learned in college, my parish and foundation, I have learned from FADICA… I learned. I participated. I was stunned at times. I laughed, I cried and it took place through FADICA. I can say the same thing about the personal relationships that have developed through this associations.”
Denise M. Hattler
Former FADICA Board Chair
Loyola Foundation
“I really am so grateful for the efforts of FADICA to strengthen Catholic institutions of higher learning.”
Archbishop Joseph Pittau, SJ
Former Director
Vatican Congregation on Education
“I think what you as FADICA are doing is listening. And this will contribute to bringing us to a realization of God’s mission and where we as a church need to be in it.”
Sr. Marlene Weisenbeck, FSPA
Former President
Leadership Conference of Women Religious
“The potential for positive, inspirational partnerships between organizations like FADICA, its associates, and the Church in Africa is, I believe, very substantial. It will require faith, and a commitment of time and energy to build up relational partnerships characterized by trust and mutual accountability, partnerships which open the way to an ongoing journey towards a deeper quality of life for Africa’s people. On behalf of the Church in Africa, I thank you deeply for participating in this journey with us.”
Bishop Kevin Dowling C.SS.R.
Diocese of Rustenburg, South Africa
“For over three decades the members of FADICA have been building up a culture of Catholic philanthropy distinctive in its expressed concern for future generations of Catholics. FADICA has been invitational in spirit always showing young people that by utilizing their special gifts together in the name of Christ they can do amazing things for our world.”
Rev. Jack Wall, FADICA Member
President, Catholic Extension
“I think the best way to help your children become saints is to become one yourself. The members of FADICA by their serious efforts over many years to participate in the liberating service of their Catholic faith, and by their prayerful, supportive and intelligent philanthropy have set an excellent example of servant leadership in our day and thereby become models of stewardship for emerging generations.”
Fr. James Martin, SJ
Award-Winning Author
My Life With the Saints
“I cannot pass up the chance to say that your own participation and leadership as lay Catholic philanthropists have been outstanding. . .”
Alice Bourke Hays
Former President
University of San Diego
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“FADICA’s achievements are a tribute to its outstanding ability to discern important needs and trends.”
Timothy J. O’Shaughnessy
Former FADICA Board Chair
I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation
“FADICA has helped our family foundation to identify significant trends in Catholicism that have influenced both our proactive and responsive philanthropy. In addition, our participation in FADICA benefits our grant making by giving us an avenue to work more closely with other private foundations when such collaboration is beneficial.”
William F. Raskob, III
FADICA Board Chair
Raskob Foundation
"That same spirit of mutual service to the faith community should inspire the work of Catholic laity in FADICA who carry forward this philanthropic tradition.”
Kathleen L. McCarthy
FADICA Board Member
Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation
“We are a people, a church and together we are the Body of Christ. We must always reflect that by encouraging one another and building up one another. Relationships building must always be of the utmost importance to FADICA.”
Philip D. Lewis
Former FADICA Board Chair
Frank J. Lewis Foundation
“You who provide the venture capital of the church accept a considerable measure of responsibility for determining what it will be used for and for helping notably to establish patterns for the future. Your stewardship constitutes a ministry affecting all other ministries.”
Sr. Joan Bland, SND (1918-2008)
1988 FADICA Distinguished
Catholic Leadership Award Recipient
Foundress, Education for Parish Service
"Catholic philanthropy is every bit a vocation and must be spiritually and intellectually nourished in community.”
Erica P. John
FADICA Member
Erica P. John Fund
"It seems to me that as we mature as a philanthropic organization, as we continue to uncover the problems and solutions in Catholic life, and as we deepend our spiritual bonds in this service to the church, we will naturally move more and more toward the challenge of turning our ideas into action . . ."
John M. Bruderman, Founding Board Chair, FADICA
1989 Recipient, FADICA Charles Carroll Award
in Catholic Philanthropy
"What wonderful people of faith and gospel service you have gathered under the umbrella of FADICA. Thank you for the witness your life and service offer the Church and our world. I came away from the gathering wtih renewed hope and vigor in so many ways!"
Sr. Carol Zinn, SSJ, Ph.D.
"For many years, I have deeply appreciated FADICA for the professional and practical assistance you have given philanthropists who have given a tremendous level of support to the works of the church... I have also admired you for the charismatic and collaborative leadership you have exercised among these Catholic leaders."
Most. Rev. Tod. D. Brown, D.D.
Bishop of the Diocese of Orange