Didde Catholic Campus Center

Didde Catholic Campus Center is a Catholic church in Emporia, KS 66801. It is one of 61 churches in Emporia, and one of 3 Catholic congregations in the city.

The Didde Catholic Campus Center exists to find, form, and launch university students as missionary disciples of Jesus Christ, while providing a home for all Catholic members of the ESU community.

Since then, it has continued to provide a spiritual home for Catholic students at Emporia State University.

Serving since 1912

Emporia, KS, 66801

Website: https://diddecenter.org/

Didde Catholic Campus Center is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story.

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The community around Didde Catholic Campus Center

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 37.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.6% (18.9–38.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 22.7%
  • Obesity: 37.6%
  • Depression: 25.9%
  • Child Poverty: 23.9% (4.5–43.2%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (8.0–20.0%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
  • Unemployment: 6.7% (1.6–11.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Emporia city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 551 residents.

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