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Missouri community welcomes Afghan moms with baby shower, clinic
Story - April 11, 2022 - By Rebecca Smith After fleeing Afghanistan, several hundred refugees have ended up in mid-Missouri. Community groups there came together to gather donations for new and expectant Afghan moms, and hosted a baby shower and health clinic to help them transition to life in America. Last August, the United States completed the American exit from Afghanistan,…
Despite reducing poverty, expanded child tax credit’s future at risk
Story - January 18, 2022 - A few weeks before Christmas, Jessica Moreno and her three kids were able to move from her parents’ home in Wood Dale, Illinois, outside of Chicago, to their own apartment a few blocks away. “The apartment was heaven sent,” she said. “I was looking at homelessness. I can’t imaging being in that situation with three…
Threat of homelessness looming over millions
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Story - August 18, 2021 - In the Gospel according to Luke 9:58, Jesus states: “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” What the Lord is describing is a reality for many people throughout the United States of America today. Recently, the Biden administration allowed the federal moratorium on…
Serving newcomers at the border: A journal of moments and reflections
Story - August 3, 2021 - Sister Joan Sullivan and Sister Mary Helen Beirne, both members of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Philadelphia, spent a week (July 5-12, 2021) at the Catholic Charities of Laredo’s La Frontera respite care center serving immigrants who entered the United States via the border with Mexico. A journal of their reflections about their service follows.…
For food bank volunteer, service is a family affair
Story - June 24, 2021 - Volunteer Tammy Goodman’s work at St. Vincent Centers Food Bank in Union Gap, Washington, is a family affair of sorts. Goodman, 50, is the lead volunteer at the center run by Catholic Charities Serving Central Washington in the Diocese of Yakima and has been involved for the past eight years. She succeeded her father as…
Caritas campaign makes strides, but has work to do welcoming migrants
Story - June 15, 2021 - Participants logged more than 370,000 miles in symbolic solidarity walks with migrants over the past four years, but the leaders of Caritas Internationalis know there are many miles to go in changing attitudes toward immigration. “Where there is indifference and intolerance toward migrants, Caritas will stand by them to express the love and concern of…
Catholic group urges Biden to address COVID-19 vaccine access at G7 summit
Story - June 9, 2021 - A national Catholic group of over 50 religious and nonprofit organizations is urging President Joe Biden to address global COVID-19 vaccine access during the upcoming G7 summit. Donald McCrabb, convenor for the newly established Catholic Cares Coalition, signed a June 7 letter on behalf of the group working to promote the COVID-19 vaccine and address…
With children’s prayers nearby, bishops try to tackle immigration
Story - June 2, 2021 - Prayers, the kind only a child can make, were on display on a table of pleas written by migrant children near a small statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, as bishops from the U.S., Mexico and Central America gathered June 1 in Mundelein. The prelates came together for the first day of an emergency meeting…
The power of water, in both its presence and absence
Story - June 1, 2021 - Faith has taught that water can be powerful, from a baby’s baptism to Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood. To millions in the West, a flood is the last thing on their minds right now. The region is experiencing its second drought in a decade, and the severity of the current drought’s second year resembles…
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley urges Biden to visit border
Story - May 10, 2021 - The announcement that the Biden administration was raising the limit of annual refugee admissions from 15,000 to 62,500 was cause for celebration at a Georgetown University online discussion of migrant issues May 4. And Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, Texas, said more visibility would help…
Catholic leaders see Chauvin verdict as call for more action
Story - April 21, 2021 - Although Catholic leaders across the country called the April 20 jury verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial a moment of justice, they also stressed there is still a lot of work to do to move toward healing. Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of Minneapolis and St. Paul called the verdict — which found the former Minneapolis…
CCUSA president and CEO recalls overwhelming experience at the border
Story - April 15, 2021 - Newspapers and TV news broadcasts are filled with stories about the situation at the Mexico-U.S. border and the record number of migrants coming to the United States. But Sister Donna Markham, OP, PhD, saw the situation first-hand April 8 when she visited Catholic Charities workers in El Centro, California, less than 20 miles from Mexicali,…