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Ouweleen, Purvis join CCUSA Board of Directors
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News - April 25, 2025 - ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Two new members — Mark Ouweleen and Gloria Purvis — have joined the Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) Board of Directors. Purvis and Ouweleen began their service in January. Ouweleen, a partner at Bartlit Beck LLP, is a trial lawyer who has litigated and tried high stakes civil cases across the country for over…
Building families, building communities
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Story - March 21, 2019 - Proper nutrition is key for children in their earliest, most critical stages of growth and development. Often, low-income women with infants and young children can’t afford, or don’t have access to, the food needed to maintain a healthy diet. WIC, which stands for Women, Infants, and Children, is a USDA supplemental nutrition program designed to…
CCUSA to launch nationwide storytelling exhibit thanks to grant from Lilly Endowment
News - April 23, 2025 - ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) announced this month to the Catholic Charities network that it will launch a nationwide storytelling exhibit, People of Hope: Faith-Filled Stories of Neighbors Helping Neighbors, in 2026. Designed to amplify the profound impact of Christian service, the ambitious project is made possible thanks to a 2024 grant of nearly…
Budget reconciliation package should provide relief, not additional burdens on those struggling
News - April 15, 2025 - Kerry Alys Robinson, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, Archbishop Borys Gudziak, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and Sr. Mary Haddad, RSM, president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, issued the following joint statement to underscore their message to lawmakers on the importance…
Mercy and an uncomfortable truth
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Prayer & Reflection - April 4, 2025 - I’ve heard it said that the Christian faith is meant to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” In today’s readings, we see examples of the latter. In the reading from the Book of Wisdom, the “wicked” make a plan to harm “the just one” because his good deeds and very presence among them make…
CCUSA President and CEO Kerry Alys Robinson to receive Laetare Medal
News - March 30, 2025 - Kerry Alys Robinson, the president and chief executive officer of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), has been selected to receive the University of Notre Dame’s 2025 Laetare Medal — the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics — at Notre Dame’s 180th University Commencement Ceremony on May 18. Founded in 1910, CCUSA is a…
Lidia serves up food, faith and family for new Catholic Charities show
Story - March 27, 2025 - Lidia Bastianich was a girl of 11 when she and her mother, father and brother arrived from Italy in 1958, and she’s never forgotten the help Catholic Charities provided after they came to New York. They were resettled in an apartment in North Bergen, New Jersey, with a rent subsidy for several months, and connected…
Restoring human dignity after family separation
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Story - January 10, 2019 - In the summer of 2014, Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley (CCRGV), under the leadership of Sister Norma Pimentel, established a Humanitarian Respite Center as a response to the substantial increase in families seeking asylum at the U.S./Mexico border. Since then, more than 150,000 individuals, including separated and reunified families, have been welcomed at…
Beyond the legend, an inspiring life
Prayer & Reflection - March 17, 2025 - I sometimes wish I were Irish. Mostly half-Lebanese, half-French, I differed from most of my Irish-Catholic friends growing up at Catholic school. For them, St. Patrick’s Day ranked as the third most important Catholic holiday, following closely behind Christmas and Easter. As a student at Notre Dame, I became a “Fighting Irish” and experienced beer…
AmeriCorps serving refugees through financial literacy
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/americorps-serving-refugees-through-financial-literacy/
Story - January 7, 2019 - AmeriCorps members working with Catholic Charities help refugees resettle in a number of ways, including language, case management and legal aid. But one essential part of their service is providing financial literacy to refugees, helping them toward self-sufficiency. CCUSA incorporated financial literacy into the application for the Refugee Resettlement AmeriCorps Program. The Corporation for National…
CCUSA mourns the passing of Pope Francis
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2025/04/21/ccusa-mourns-the-passing-of-pope-francis/
News - April 21, 2025 - In reaction to the death of Pope Francis, Catholic Charities USA President and CEO Kerry Alys Robinson issued the following statement: Throughout his historic papacy, Pope Francis inspired Catholics and all people of good will to live as Christ did. A modern-day prophet, Pope Francis read the signs of the times and awakened us to…
They’ll be home for Christmas
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Story - December 11, 2018 - After spending Christmas 2017 in a motel, an Orange County family of five will be celebrating the holidays back in their home this year. The family, which consists of three young children and their 32-year-old single parent and their disabled grandparent, has spent the last several months cramped into a FEMA trailer after moving out…