Why Support the CIC?

Why does the Catholic Information Center need my support?

It is with the generous support of contributors like you, making both small and large gifts that CIC is able to sustain and expand its programs and services.

Today, the bookstore covers only 1/6 th of our $600,000 operating budget. A modest subsidy of $50,000 from the Archdiocese helps us to maintain our location and presence on K Street , but we need the consistent, yearly, quarterly, even monthly help of generous individuals like you to cover the remaining 5/6 th of our budget.

What will my contribution help to support?

Your contributions support our lecture series, book signings, discussion groups, and providing the downtown DC population with spiritual direction and access to the Sacraments. In the past two years alone, the CIC:

• Held over 60 lectures
• Facilitated 40 discussion groups on topics such as the Theology of the Body and C.S. Lewis' The Four Loves
• Hosted guest speakers including: Raymond Arroyo, George Weigel, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Robert Sokolowski, and Rev. James Schall, SJ
• Guided over a dozen individuals to full communion with the Church, and
• Gave hundreds of weekly visitors the opportunity to attend Mass, receive spiritual direction, or purchase books

But we cannot host such events without your consistent financial support. Without people like you, our programs would flounder. Please consider contributing again today—help us not to have to hold back on a single program, but instead have dozens more.