Story - July 22, 2020 - When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the Washington area in mid-March, shuttering many local restaurants and businesses, the lines at a weekly food pantry sponsored by the Spanish Catholic Center immediately jumped from about 60 people to hundreds. And now, four months into this time of job loss, sickness and social distancing, this previously small…

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…

News - April 15, 2016 - Alexandria, Va. (April 15, 2016) — Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), which represents one of the largest faith-based social service networks in the country, is pleased to announce that Bishop Emeritus William S. Skylstad and Colin Arnold, volunteers at Catholic Charities of Spokane and Catholic Community Service of Juneau, Alaska respectively, are winners of CCUSA’s 2016…

News - October 14, 2021 - Budget Reconciliation should prioritize Affordable Housing and Child Tax Credit for those who need it most Alexandria, Va. – October 14, 2021 – In a letter to Congressional leadership, Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), one the nation’s largest social services providers, urged Congress to prioritize investments that help individuals…

News - April 20, 2023 - Alexandria, Va. – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) has selected Trang Coulon, a dedicated volunteer with Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma, as the 2023 CCUSA Volunteer of the Year. Coulon serves in a lead role in The Market at Catholic Charities, a ministry that invites neighbors in need to select their own food in a no-cost…

News - June 23, 2016 - Today the Supreme Court, by a 4-4 vote, allowed a lower court decision to stand which blocks the implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) executive actions. “While today’s split opinion does not decide the ultimate validity of the DACA and DAPA programs, it does…

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…

Story - August 11, 2020 - By Kim Burgo, Vice President of Disaster Operations, CCUSA If responding to natural disasters wasn’t complicated enough, COVID-19 places new challenges in the disaster response work Catholic Charities accomplishes. As agencies try to navigate an already complicated disaster process, it becomes even more challenging when the process includes new terms like “social distancing,” new equipment such as…

Story - June 14, 2016 - Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada (CCSN) provides help, hope, and a sense of family for homebound, at-risk seniors with a robust selection of programs. The best known is Meals on Wheels (MOW). MOW provides meals for 2000 seniors every week. Praise from grateful clients and referrals from social workers have made the program very successful…

Story - April 2, 2020 - “Could the coronavirus-19 crisis lead to a jubilee?” Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle wondered out loud during a Mass livestreamed from the Pontifical Philippine College in Rome. Preaching March 29 about the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, Cardinal Tagle looked at a variety of ways people can be in “tombs” and in…

Story - January 8, 2024 - This National Mentoring Month, CCUSA is sharing stories that showcase Catholic Charities agencies’ incredible efforts to foster the development of youth to their full potential. Catholic Community Services of Utah, through its Refugee Youth Mentoring program, matches newly arrived refugee youth with mentors who help them adjust to a new cultural environment, discover and develop…

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,…