Who We Help

In the United States today, more than 34,000 Catholic sisters, brothers, and religious order priests past age 70 benefit from the Retirement Fund for Religious (RFR). Donations to the RFR furnish funding for financial, educational, and consultative support that helps religious communities care for senior members and plan for long-term retirement needs.

Learn how the RFR assists individual religious and their communities.

Meet a few of them here.

Individuals

Click on a photo to learn about some of the women and men religious who benefit from the RFR.

Communities

Click on a photo to learn how the RFR helps religious communities provide for the ongoing care of senior members.

Religious give thanks:

"This support makes a tremendous difference in our daily lives, but especially in those of our elderly, and knowing they are cared for properly is a priceless blessing."

A contemplative community in Connecticut

34,873

religious are past age 70 (based on data submitted to the NRRO in 2011).

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