In a time when ecclesial participation places huge challenges, The 2025 edition of the sustainability budget of the Italian Catholic Action A lively and participatory photograph of the Association takes highlighting its great vitality. The numbers are clear: over 229,000 members, growing for the fourth consecutive year (+3.7%), With positive signals in all age groups, including adults. To these are added more than 40,000 association managers, Over 43,000 educators, about 14,000 training groups, 1,800 school fields and an estimate of over 15 million hours donated. There are about 500,000 sympathizers who gravitate around the Association, and 26,000 members also engaged outside the associative perimeter, testifying to the social impact released on the territory exercised by an association founded in 1867 which brings together lay people, children, young people, adults committed to living in community form the experience of faith and the announcement of the Gospel.
The 2025 budget focuses on the value of participation, lived intensely during the three-year assembly path (2021-2024), which involved parishes, dioceses, regions and ended with the national assembly and the meeting with Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on April 25, 2024, with over 80,000 people present. A visible manifestation of the aggregative strength and of the ecclesial sense that the Catholic action continues to offer to the Church and the Italian society. Focus also on the active presence of the association at the 50th social week of Trieste and the historical contribution of the AC to the Resistance and Liberation from Nazifascism.
The presentation event of the seventh Sustainability Budget of the AC will take place On June 27 at 4.30 pm, in the Pia room of the Lumsa in Rome. It will be open by the institutional greetings of the National President of the AC Giuseppe Notarstefano, followed by the interventions of Helen Alford, economist and president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and Folco Cimagalli, Professor of General Sociology at the Lumsa. The works will be moderated by Marco Ferrando, deputy director of Happen. The presentation of the financial statements will be entrusted to Andrea Cavallini (Mediamo Area Sustainability Srl SRL), and will be followed by a debate and the conclusions at 7 pm.
(Ansa photo: Pope Francis among the members of the Italian Catholic Action in St. Peter’s Square on April 25, 2024)
