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RCL Benziger’s rich history begins in 1792 when Joseph Charles Benziger began selling devotional books in the small Swiss town of Einsiedeln, a monastic and Marian pilgrimage center from the tenth century. Within a few decades, Benziger became one of the largest and most distinguished publishers in Switzerland. When lithography was invented, Joseph’s sons, Nicholas and Charles, established the first major holy card printing business using that process.
In 1853, the first Benziger printing house opened in New York City selling religious books in Polish, German, and English. Reaching out to rural American Catholic families, the Benziger sales wagon brought Bibles and prayer books to communities up and down the Ohio River. The Holy See conferred on the firm the title “Printers to the Holy Apostolic See” in 1867, and “The Pontifical Institute of Christian Art” in 1888.
In 1968, Macmillan/McGraw Hill School Publishing Co. Inc., acquired Benziger, and in 1971, it merged with two other companies—Bruce publishing, founded in Milwaukee in the 1890’s, and Glencoe Press, established in Beverly Hills in 1966.
In 2007, CFM Publishing purchased the Benziger name and product line from McGraw Hill and merged with Texas-based Catholic publisher RCL—Resources for Christian Living—to form RCL Benziger. Richard Leach, Catholic entrepreneur and founder, dedicated RCL’s resources to publishing innovative, high-quality products for religious education and faith formation. That same year, RCL Benziger acquired the assets of long-standing Silver Burdett Ginn Religion. The combination of all three catechetical publishing companies resulted in a single publisher that provides unparalleled materials and services for the Catholic faith community.
In 2016, Dubuque, Iowa-based Kendall Hunt Publishing Company acquired RCL Benziger, joining two leaders in the K-12 publishing industry. Family owned and operated, Kendall Hunt was previously part of William C. Brown that published religious education materials for the Catholic faith, starting with The Archdiocese of Chicago in the early 1970s, before expanding throughout the United States in the 1980s under the name Brown ROA.
The acquisition by Kendall Hunt continues on a long tradition of providing supreme resources to the Catholic community. This strategic milestone in the two legacy brands’ combined history of more than 289 years allows for strong Catholic traditions to carry into our future.
Today, Cincinnati-based RCL Benziger is a Catholic publisher known for its pioneering multimedia product offerings. The major provider offers religious education programs for Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools, families, and individuals, including bilingual and special needs resources. RCL Benziger publishes materials for all Catholic faith formation needs, including sacramental preparation, family life, and catechist and adult faith formation.
RCL Benziger is a team of resourceful and creative people dedicated to providing the Catholic community with the highest quality products, programs, and services which are rooted in the Christian faith. We are customer focused and committed to enriching the lives of individuals, families, and communities worldwide. We value integrity, respectful collaboration, enthusiasm, and sound business principles.
Generally, all orders are processed and shipped within 2-5 business days, providing inventory is available and all order information is accurate and complete.
For the Continental United States, shipping and handling costs are 11% (minimum $10.00) on all Web orders.
We currently are unable to accept orders from countries outside of the United States on our website. To place an international order, please contact Customer Solutions at 1-877-275-4725.
RCL Benziger (“RCLB”) recognizes and respects the sensitive nature of information collected through our websites and the right of consumers to protect it. This Policy describes how we handle information we learn about you from websites that are specifically identified as belonging to RCLB and that link directly to this Policy (“Websites”).
This Privacy Policy is effective as of September 1, 2014. Your prior activities on our Websites may have been governed by an earlier version of the Policy.
From time to time, we may use your information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Policy. If our information practices change materially at some time in the future, we will post the changes to our Websites and revise our Policy accordingly. In addition, if we have collected personally-identifying information from you, we will notify you about the changes and secure your consent prior to making use of your information in new ways.
If you have questions or wish to contact us about the Policy, direct inquiries to:
RCL Benziger
4050 Westmark Drive
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Phone: 1-877-275-4725
Email: customersolutions@kendallhunt.com
To ensure that your communications are properly routed, please identify the Website relevant to your inquiry. If you would like us to respond, please include sufficient information to enable us to contact you.
The information we collect varies depending upon your activities when visiting our sites. We collect personal and contact information (“Personal Information”) you choose to provide to us in connection with your activities on the site. Participation in these activities is completely voluntary, and not all activities are available on all of our Websites. We provide free and for-purchase consumables that require gathering Personal Information for downloading and e-commerce transactions, for membership and subscription services, for logging into password-protected areas of our Websites, for posting comments on the Websites, and for other reasons identified at the point of collection. The Personal Information you share with us may include your name, email address, church or organization affiliation, personal or church address, personal or church phone number, credit card information, personal and/or church demographic information, personal shopping, contact preferences, personal and/or professional opinions, and the like.
In addition, for each visitor to our site, we automatically gather certain other information and store it in log files. This information includes (as applicable) internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, your operating system, date/time stamp, processor or device serial number, unique device identifier, and clickstream data. We collect and store this information on an individual basis and in aggregate, or combined, form. We also collect both user-specific and aggregate information on what pages visitors access or visit.
To determine how many users visit our site and to better understand the areas of greatest interest to our visitors, we use Google Analytics to compile this information for us. This tells us your city and state. For further information, consult http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html regarding Google’s privacy practices.
We use Personal Information for the purposes stated at the point of collection, including providing you with the products and/or services you request and sending you information about other products and/or services we believe may be of interest to you. We also use this information to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around our Websites, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We also use this information to improve the content of our web pages, and to customize the content and layout of our pages. All of this is done with the intention of making our Websites more useful to visitors.
We do not rent or sell email addresses, postal addresses or telephone contact information to any third parties, or otherwise share any Personal Information we collect with third parties except where we believe disclosure is legally required, necessary to protect safety, or necessary to protect our rights.
If we develop a business relationship with you as a result of your inquiries on our Websites, we will retain your information in accordance with our continuing business need to service this relationship. If you create a user account on the Website, we keep your account information for so long as you are using the account. Personal Information collected through our Websites is retained for six years following the conclusion of our business relationship with you. Any information you submit to this Website as part of a public posting or in any materials intended for public view is retained indefinitely.
We may use cookies to save information about you when you are visiting a Website related to particular products or services you are interested in, but only if you check the “remember me next time” icon. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.
We do not currently have the capability to recognize browser “Do Not Track” signals. We adhere to the standards set forth in this privacy policy.
If you do not wish to receive promotional emails from us, please let us know by using the opt-out response device that can be found at the bottom of every email we deliver or by emailing us at customerservice@rclbenziger.com. To help us process your request, please include sufficient information for us to identify you in our records.
Please note that, although you can opt not to receive promotional messages, we reserve the right to send you informational email messages about any user account you establish on this website or administrative notices regarding the site, as permitted under the CAN-SPAM Act (15 U.S.C. §7701 et seq.).
If you have an account or membership in connection with any of our Websites, you can have your contact information corrected by sending your request to the postal address or email address provided above. On some sites, you may also be able to log into your account and make changes to your contact information. To help us process your request, please provide sufficient information to allow us to identify you in our records. We reserve the right to ask for information verifying your identity prior to disclosing any Personal Information to you or correcting such information.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, and to guard that information against loss, misuse or alteration.
Please note, however, that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we use commercially-reasonable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
This Policy applies only to information collected by our Websites. From time to time, we may display links to websites we do not own. We do not control the collection or use of any information that occurs during your visit to those sites, and we make no representations about their privacy policies or practices.
Be careful of disclosing any of your personally identifiable information when leaving our Websites.
It is possible that, at some time in the future, RCLB may be sold along with its assets, or may engage in business transactions in which customer information is one of the assets transferred. In such a case, the customer information which we have gathered may be one of the business assets we transfer.