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Catholic Charities agencies prepare to help with damage caused by Hurricane Ida
Story - August 31, 2021 - Catholic Charities in and around the areas of Louisiana and Mississippi affected by Hurricane Ida — one of the most powerful storms to hit the continental U.S. since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — are collecting donations as they prepare to help with the yet-unknown damage caused by the late August storm. In a televised Aug.…
Washington Archdiocese offers practical steps to care for creation
Story - August 19, 2021 - Launched Aug. 16, the Archdiocese of Washington’s action plan to promote “an integral ecology” includes practical ways that parishes, Catholic schools and institutions, and individuals and families can care for creation, drawing on environmental science and inspired by Catholic social teaching. After Pope Francis issued his landmark 2015 encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’, on…
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley on mission to serve the vulnerable
Story - August 16, 2021 - A Catholic Charities official in southern Texas who oversees outreach to hundreds of migrant families entering the United States daily has asked a federal court to allow the agency to continue its mission of serving vulnerable people. Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in the Brownsville Diocese, said…
Texas bishops say closing facilities would violate religious freedom
Story - July 21, 2021 - The bishops who head the El Paso and Dallas dioceses in Texas have asked Gov. Greg Abbott to halt an order that could result in shutting down, by the end of August, Catholic Charities facilities in Texas that care for foster and migrant children, saying that doing so violates state laws protecting religious freedom. “Motivated…
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…
Welcoming and supporting newcomers for more than a century
Story - April 7, 2021 - For more than 100 years, the Catholic Charities ministry in the United States has provided essential services to immigrants and newcomers. The reason transcends particular time periods, exigencies or politics. Catholic Charities affirms the inherent, God-given dignity of immigrants and refugees, as well as every human person, and works to honor that dignity by helping…
Catholic Charities staffer offers congressional testimony on domestic violence prevention
Story - March 22, 2021 - Ami Novoryta, chief program officer at Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, gave testimony before the House Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services on March 22, 2021. The hearing, chaired by Representative Suzanne Bonamici (Dem., Oregon), was entitled “Ending the Cycle: Examining Ways to Prevent Domestic Violence and…
CCUSA urges Congress to provide relief funds in next COVID-19 package
Story - March 3, 2021 - Democratic members of the U.S. Senate were hopeful their version of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package would be passed the second week of March, so they could send it to President Joe Biden for his signature before unemployment assistance expires March 14. The measure includes $246 billion for extending unemployment benefits through August and…
Emotional, psychological toll of pandemic just now being felt
Story - February 26, 2021 - The psychological and emotional trauma of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is only now beginning to be felt, and is bound to keep affecting American workers for some time to come. “The other virus that we’re dealing with is fear,” said Jesuit Father Thomas Florek, part of the Hispanic-Latino formation development team at the University of…
Oregon’s Catholic agencies give critical support to Latinos in pandemic
Story - January 5, 2021 - The coronavirus has reshaped life in the United States in many ways, but in key respects it has affected Black, Native American and Latino individuals more than other racial or ethnic groups. People of color get sick and die of COVID-19 at rates higher than white individuals and higher than their share of the population,…
Replica of Vatican migrant sculpture displayed in Brooklyn
Story - December 11, 2020 - The diocese of immigrants is temporarily the home of a sculpture depicting the movement of migrants. “Angels Unawares,” a replica of the artwork that sits in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, was unveiled Dec. 8 by Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and placed in front of the diocese’s public Christmas tree at Grand Army Plaza.…
Thankful for transportation
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Story - November 11, 2020 - When we gather with our family or friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, we probably don’t think much about how we will get to the gathering. Transportation is something we often take for granted. It’s easy to forget that for many poor and vulnerable people in Ohio, transportation is one of the biggest barriers to success and…