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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…
Learning to recognize and support victims of trafficking
Story - September 15, 2015 - Trafficking victims — exploited men, women and children — are all around us, but we usually don’t see them. We may not be aware of trafficking or we don’t know what to look for. It’s a blind spot that the state of Kentucky and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Louisville are shining a light…
CCUSA, USCCB urge Congress to support just wages
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2015/07/28/ccusa-and-usccb-urge-congress-to-support-just-wages/
News - July 28, 2015 - Today, CCUSA’s President, Sister Donna Markham, and Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Chair of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, wrote jointly to Congress to lift up the struggles of low-wage workers and their families. They stressed in their letter that “Protecting low-wage workers and promoting their ability to form and nurture families are…
Guidance for handling stress, anxiety during hardship
Story - April 14, 2020 - Social Distancing Can Impact Mental Health It’s a fact, the Coronavirus is affecting each of us in one way or another. Catholic Charities of Orange, Sullivan and Ulster recognizes that affect may be different for each person. It may be physically, mentally, financially, or some other impact that is resulting from social distancing and drastic…
A new season
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/about-us/prayers-reflections/a-new-season/
Prayer & Reflection - December 26, 2023 - When they heard this, they were infuriated, and they ground their teeth at him… They threw him out of the city, and began to stone him. [Acts 7:54, 58] Yesterday, our great season of giving came to an end. Since early November, as we prepared for Thanksgiving, until yesterday, when we celebrated the birth of…
AmeriCorps awards over $1.2 million to CCUSA
News - May 22, 2019 - Alexandria, Va. (May 22, 2019) –Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) is pleased to announce that it has received over $1.2 million in AmeriCorps funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency responsible for AmeriCorps and other national service programs. The funding will be used to support four national AmeriCorps projects including…
Catholic Charities Rio Grande ready to help asylum-seekers in the U.S.
Story - February 24, 2021 - Just as the coldest weather in more than 30 years brought new misery to asylum-seekers stranded in a refugee camp in Mexico, an end to their plight may be in sight. A small group of 25 was the first to leave the camp in Matamoros, Mexico, and enter the United States Feb. 22 in Brownsville,…
Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/members/catholic-charities-of-eastern-oklahoma/
Member - October 25, 2018 - From pregnancy care to end-of-life care, and everything in between, our 15 programs and seven locations serve those in need across Eastern Oklahoma. We are the largest provider of food to individuals in need in the state of Oklahoma, but we also provide dental care, adult education, immigration legal services, transitional living for pregnant women…
He has given us light
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/about-us/prayers-reflections/he-has-given-us-light/
Prayer & Reflection - December 7, 2023 - In our first reading from Isaiah, I can’t ignore the stark reality of the ongoing violence in the Holy Land, the very place referred to as the Land of Judah — encompassing both Israel and Palestine. The prophetic song portrays a protected city held in peace, emphasizing the Lord’s power in humbling the lofty, causing…
CCUSA president and CEO, others call for federal response to housing crisis
News - January 24, 2019 - Today, CCUSA joined leading national organizations from the housing, education, health, civil rights, anti-hunger, anti-poverty and faith-based sectors in releasing a new report calling for an ambitious federal response to the nation’s housing affordability crisis. Over the past year, these organizations have joined together through Opportunity Starts at Home, an unprecedented multi-sector campaign to advocate for…
Winter storm’s grip doesn’t stop ministries, outreach in Dallas Diocese
Story - February 22, 2021 - Despite the grip the historic winter storm had on north Texas, faith fueled outreach to Catholics and other community members in the Diocese of Dallas. “It’s an opportunity for us to provide to our parishioners in any way we can,” Dallas Bishop Edward J. Burns said. “We recognize that we have to do church differently…
CCUSA continues to urge passage of Second Chance Act
News - July 30, 2015 - Recently, hundreds of you have joined us in calling on Congress to act on the Second Chance Act and these efforts are showing returns! Last week, the Second Chance Act was introduced in the House with broad bi-partisan support (15 Democrat and 13 Republican co-sponsors). If you have not already taken action, please keep the…