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After deadly tornados hit Western Kentucky in December, Catholic parishes quickly took up the collection for their neighbors, but then donations began flooding in from outside the diocese as well. The city of Owensboro itself was unscathed by the storms, and the McRaith Catholic Center in Owensboro, home to diocese's central offices, began receiving phone calls and online donations around the clock. Over the next few weeks, the diocese's finance office was "just overwhelmed" by the sheer magnitude of donations coming in, Bishop Medley told The Western Kentucky Catholic, the diocesan newspaper.