Prayer & Reflection - March 8, 2024 - Our Gospel today asks a simple question, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” What a treasure to know the answer to this question. Every day of Jesus’s life, Mary and Joseph prayed with him the same prayer each morning and evening. From the day of his birth in Bethlehem, through the exile in…

News - November 14, 2023 - CCUSA and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) commend the Department of Labor for its efforts to improve protections afforded to both prospective and existing H-2A workers. We also appreciate efforts to clarify expectations placed on employers to aid in their compliance with program requirements. H-2A workers face unique vulnerabilities, given the temporary…

News - August 28, 2023 - Alexandria, Va. – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) has named Sarah Clement, chief administrative officer at Catholic Charities of Acadiana, the recipient of the 2023 Management Excellence Award. Each year, the CCUSA Management and Administration Community of Practice confers this honor on an exceptional manager or supervisor in the Catholic Charities network who leads his or her…

News - August 24, 2023 - Recognizing the crucial importance of mental health, the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (NFCYM) is inviting Catholic parishes and organizations to host a seminar, resource session or presentation integrating Catholic spirituality and mental health on a chosen Sunday afternoon or evening in October. To aid in this important effort, NFCYM is encouraging these groups to…

Guided by Catholic social teaching and informed by the experiences of local Catholic Charities agencies, CCUSA advocacy urges policymakers to recognize the needs of the most vulnerable and to adopt measures that support them.  

Publication - August 1, 2020 - Poverty and racism continue to undermine our nation’s most basic promise of liberty and justice for all. Catholic Charities maintains the conviction that both are scandalous affronts to the Christian conscience and endanger the social peace and future prosperity of this nation. Summary This paper is an invitation to others, both in the Catholic Charities…

Publication - August 4, 2022 - Whole Hearted provides basic and helpful trauma awareness. It is not clinical or professional therapy. It informs participants of trauma’s impact and how one might begin to move forward mentally and spiritually.

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Prayer & Reflection - December 12, 2022 - Working in social service is hard. There are days when someone comes for help, and we’re unable to help them. Problems exist in systems all around us that we do not have complete control over. The brokenness of the human condition is present at every turn. We are tasked with managing services administered to others…

Prayer & Reflection - March 12, 2022 - Just when you thought the Lenten practices of praying, fasting, and almsgiving were not challenging enough, the gospel today has Jesus giving his disciples – and us – an even taller order: “Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” What? Is that even possible? To understand this imperative, we must look at the…

Prayer & Reflection - December 10, 2021 - Friday of the Second Week of Advent: A good question to ponder this Advent is: How do we come to know the wisdom of God? In today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches that “Wisdom is vindicated by her works.” Perhaps this means that to understand the wisdom of God we must see it in action. For example,…