By Joseph Kenny, Review Staff Writer
Progress as promised.
Pledges for the capital campaign for Kenrick-Glennon Seminary are being collected and are being put to use, including for building the endowment.
In February, the Archdiocese of St. Louis announced that the "Faith for the Future" campaign exceeded its goal. The effort raised more than $61 million, an amount that was $11 million more than the target.
So far, 46 percent of pledges have been collected. The campaign is far ahead of the anticipated schedule for collecting pledges — an unusual but pleasing circumstance for the first nine months of a five-year collection period.
Because of the pace of collection of pledges, Archbishop Robert J. Carlson has directed staff to:
The campaign was conducted to increase the endowment as well as provide repairs, updates and physical improvements to a building that dates to 1931.
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