Some people actually like to ask for money and they are outstanding at getting it.
I envy them. I hate it. Last week I told a couple of hundred of our key workers in the annual Cardinal's Appeal who came from all over the archdiocese on a bitterly cold day to St. John the Baptist Church in Yonkers for a Mass to begin this year's campaign. There are several reasons. First, it is my job and my privilege to help feed and house and educate and provide health care and meet the countless number of other critical needs of countless numbers of God's People.