Catholic War Veterans and Auxiliary

• if you desire to make a real difference for good in people’s lives…
• if you desire that no veteran, their spouse, or their orphans gets left behind…
• if you care about liberty, justice, and the future freedom of your community and nation…
  …We salute you and invite YOU to join us NOW!

It is estimated that on any given day there are over 1.4 million Catholics serving in our nation’s military and that there are more than 10 million Catholics veterans.. If you are, or were, one of them, we need YOU!. Just as our nation’s military missions suffer when enlistments and commissions wane — we too, are less effective without YOU!

When our founder Fr. Edward J. Higgins of Astoria, NY decided to form the first Catholic War Veterans Post and to seek the blessing of Pope Pius XI, his first order for the organization was to actively support the good and welfare of our nation. Second, as a World War I veteran, he wanted to ensure that the primary focus of our efforts was to put into action the famous words of President Abraham Lincoln –

“To care for those who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan.”

Today, we keep faith with this mandate of our founder by providing the services of our national and local Service Officers free of charge to those members and other veterans who request assistance in preparing and defending their claims for federal veterans benefits.

As a Congressionally Chartered organization, the CWV is privileged to be able to provide face-to-face testimony before our nation’s law makers with a mandate backed by federal law on behalf of all veterans and their families. By joining the CWV you can be sure that your voice will be heard in the halls of our government.

With CWV Posts and Auxiliary Units located across the country our members are able to provide assistance programs tailored to the needs of their local communities and those local citizen-soldiers of our National Guard and Reserves.

Becoming a CWV or Auxiliary member is more than exercising charity and providing service. Members enjoy the camaraderie and respect of fellow veterans. Each individual has a distinct story to tell, and in the CWV and Auxiliary we listen…

And we remember that it is the individual veteran and their family who have volunteered and put their lives on the line for the rest of us. They have served and sacrificed and they deserve to be remembered for their honor and their valor. These are the true role models for our youth to emulate and admire. Working together we can assure our predecessors that their memory is preserved.

Upon signing the Congressional Charter of the Catholic War Veterans on August 17, 1984 President Ronald Reagan had this to say,

“There have never been any sunshine soldiers or summer patriots in your ranks, and I have the deepest admiration for your commitment to serve both God and country.”