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The SMCPS was established in 2015 to keep St. Michael’s Church open in the midst of an effort by the Diocese of Camden to consolidate 4 parishes in Atlantic City into one parish. All parishioners expected St. Michael’s Church to be closed permanently...as St. Monica’s Church was in the inlet section of Atlantic City. The Society was formed to organize, coordinate, and defeat any efforts to close St. Michael Church. Today St. Michael’s is an important part of St. Monica’s Parish.

 But as personnel changes in the Diocese and financial issues continue to challenge both St. Monica’s Parish and the Catholic Church across the country...the SMCPS and we supporters will need to be vigilant. The society today is pleased to work cooperatively with Fr. Jon Thomas and the Parish of St. Monica to make St. Michael’s Church and its campus financially secure and well maintained.

 St. Michael’s Church and its facilities were built to be the spiritual, social, educational, and cultural center for Italian Immigrants at its founding in 1904. The SMCPS’s mission is to preserve the church and this mission for another century.

 We seek to garner support from the many legacy Italian-Americans in the Atlantic City area and across the country to support St. Michael’s Church as an Italian-American treasure of spirit and art. We also look to attract, share, and promote our Catholic values and Italian traditions with a new generation of immigrants now living in Ducktown.

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