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CV NEWS FEED // The Archbishops of New York and Los Angeles are placing wagers on their home teams in the upcoming World Series to benefit students within their dioceses.
The campaign website, called Baseball Unites, explains that Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York made a friendly wager with Archbishop Jose Gomez, as their respective home teams will be competing in the World Series for the first time in 43 years.
The wager, where Cardinal Dolan promised New York bagels to Archbishop Gomez, and Archbishop Gomez promised Randy’s Donuts to the Cardinal, will also benefit local Catholic schools.
While donations are being accepted to benefit John Cardinal O’Connor School in New York and the Catholic Education Foundation of Los Angeles (CEF), the archdiocese that “wins” the wager will receive 60% of the total funds. The archdiocese that “loses” will receive 40%. The funds will go directly to the O’Connor School and CEF.
Baseball Unites reports that the O’Connor School “was established to provide an affordable, language-based academic curriculum for children in grades 2-8 with learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, or other health impairments to children with learning differences.” It helps students with learning differences thrive “academically, spiritually, emotionally, and socially” through its programs and community.
The same website states that the CEF provides tuition assistance “to the most financially deserving students” so that they can attend Catholic schools in the Diocese of Los Angeles. This year the foundation “granted more than 15,000 tuition awards in excess of $22,000,000 to more than 13,000 students attending over 200 schools throughout the Archdiocese.”
