Our new address is:

elcome to the Catholic Information Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Take a moment to learn about the Center and our opportunities for  education, spiritual renewal, reconciliation.

e welcome you with love and respect of where you are in your faith journey whether you are fully committed, are asking questions about your faith, or need reconciliation for full sacramental participation in the Church.

e welcome the joyous, the compassionate, the hurting, and the lost – all equally and with God's love. We will invite you to live in ways that will benefit people and communities, strengthen families, meet the gospel demands of justice and pursue peace in our world.

e invite you to join the Paulist Mission of bringing the Good News of Jesus to the Americas by reaching out to others who have no faith, seeking understanding between and among different faith traditions, and bringing reconciliation to those who are alienated from the church and from society.

Mission Statement

he Mission of the Catholic Information Center is to make alive the mission of the Paulist Fathers in Grand Rapids and Western Michigan. The lay people who are the Catholic Information Center and the Paulist Fathers who serve them work together for three main goals:

• Evangelization, the preaching of the Gospel to those who have not heard it, invites all people to hear the Word of God and share in our Church life together. Further the Paulist mission is to bring Gospel truth and the richness of Catholic tradition to the people, institutions and cultures of North America.
  
• Reconciliation, the work of healing and compassion, calls us to reach out to our Catholic brothers and sisters, alienated from the Church community; and calls us to respond to the wounds of society and the hunger for peace and justice. We recognize that action on behalf of justice is constitutive of the preaching of the Gospel.
  
• Ecumenism, the search for the unity God wills for the Church, opens us to the spiritual riches and Gospel traditions of other Christian churches, and urges us to work with one another for unity in life and mission; opens us also to our unique spiritual kinship with the Jewish people; and to the movement of the Spirit in other world religions.