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Catholic Charities Miami offers help after ‘heartbreaking’ building collapse
Story - June 25, 2021 - Staff members with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami were on location and developing a response strategy June 24 near the stunning wreckage of a partially collapsed beachfront high-rise apartment building. As of early June 25, some 159 people who lived in the 12-story building remained unaccounted for, according to local law enforcement officials.…
At migration summit, bishops work toward ‘church without borders’
Story - June 3, 2021 - After hearing the story of a Salvadoran immigrant and her plight to leave her home country, bishops from the U.S., Central America and Mexico meeting in Mundelein June 2 turned to a camera facing a woman identified as Maria Antonia. Even though she was who thousands of miles away, in Irving, Texas, they gave her…
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…
Community still feels impact of George Floyd’s murder
Story - May 26, 2021 - Lift each other up in the midst of trauma, poverty and injustice. That’s the simple but profound advice from Michael Goar as he works through the anxiety and sorrow of clients and employees at the organization he leads, Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact one year ago…
Helping at the border
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Story - May 21, 2021 - In early May, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious asked members for urgent help in ministering to migrants when families, minors and others were increasingly coming across cities and towns close to the U.S.-Mexico border. Mercy Sister Patricia Mulderick, who’d had previous experience in advocacy work on behalf of migrants and experience in Latin America,…
CCUSA participates in ‘Owning Slavery, Pursuing Justice, Seeking Reconciliation’
Story - May 10, 2021 - The work of Georgetown University and the Jesuits in reckoning with the history of owning and selling enslaved people may hold lessons for the rest of the Catholic Church and American society, said several panelists at an April 29 discussion at the university. Joseph M. Stewart, the acting president of the Descendants Truth & Reconciliation…
Catholic Charities steps in when an ‘American dream’ unravels
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Story - April 29, 2021 - Marie and Bob worked all their lives to become homeowners. They lived comfortably on their two stable incomes. But six years ago, their hard-earned American Dream started to unravel before their eyes. They found out they had been victims of predatory lending, and they were forced to foreclose, declare bankruptcy, and move out of their…
Bishop urges parishes to network to serve the most vulnerable
Story - March 17, 2021 - For a society, a world, struggling through “a time of pervasive darkness,” Youngstown Bishop David J. Bonnar asked: “What are we to do in the midst of this long night?” In his pastoral letter to diocesan Catholics, titled “Testify to the Light,” he also asks: “How do we help one another to come out of…
American Rescue Plan praised for provisions to help ‘most vulnerable’
Story - March 15, 2021 - The American Rescue Plan is “an extraordinarily practical way to help the American people, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said in a statement March 11, the same day President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package into law. “People have the right to expect that their money, in the form of tax…
Companions on the journey: Nuns continue border work during pandemic
Story - February 19, 2021 - At the Gateway International Bridge that links Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico, a group of volunteers and Catholic sisters pull portable carts with diapers, tents, food and supplies. They cross the border into Mexico on foot, a small caravan of about 10-20 people. Their destination is the migrant camp on the other side, where asylum-seekers…
An online solution to help people in real life
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Story - January 6, 2021 - Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego developed the Client Onboarding Management Processing And Servicing System, also known as COMPASS. The program is an online system designed to process and track clients from intake to outcomes. It manages client onboarding, internal and external referrals, and captures data analytics on services provided and total clients served. It…
In spirit of V Encuentro, Hispanic laity, clergy help families in need
Story - October 15, 2020 - Every week since March, an army of volunteers and Father Evelio Menjivar, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in the Washington suburb of Landover Hills, Maryland, gather in the parish’s parking lot to give away boxes of food to local families in need. As the pandemic’s effects caused by COVID-19 started to surface, the parish…