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Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic Social Services in adoption case
Story - June 21, 2021 - In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia’s foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents. Although the court said Philadelphia’s anti-discrimination laws put an unfair burden on Philadelphia’s Catholic Social Services, the justices did…
What’s next? Flood overwhelms woman’s home in Bayou Pigeon, LA
Story - June 8, 2021 - The stench of wet wood and mold, cooked under the Louisiana sun, smothers you as you walk into Janet Derrick’s house. The floors remain wet a few days after a dam broke in Iberville Parish. The flooring gives way under each step. After delivering a meal, we asked Janet: “What else do you need?” “A…
Catholic Charities volunteers deliver supplies to flood victims
Story - June 1, 2021 - After the 2016 flood, Denise Brown donated time and money to the recovery effort. Five years later — on the heels of a storm that doused the capital region in 14 inches of rain, flooding her out of house and home — the 39-year-old Jefferson Terrace resident is the one who needs help. And on…
LifeHouse celebrates 100 babies born to once homeless women
Story - May 21, 2021 - LifeHouse Crisis Maternity Home (LifeHouse), a program of Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri (CCSOMO), is celebrating the birth of 100 babies to its formerly homeless clients. Fifteen of these babies were born during the current pandemic and all were born free of drug dependence and the need for long-term Neonatal Intensive Care, a savings to…
Helping at the border
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Story - May 21, 2021 - In early May, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious asked members for urgent help in ministering to migrants when families, minors and others were increasingly coming across cities and towns close to the U.S.-Mexico border. Mercy Sister Patricia Mulderick, who’d had previous experience in advocacy work on behalf of migrants and experience in Latin America,…
A hopeful investment for a community in need
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Story - May 19, 2021 - It is a time of hope. And few people need hope more than the poverty-stricken residents of Portsmouth, Ohio, located in Scioto County— the second poorest county in the state. With a median household income of $28,840, Portsmouth bears the burden of a 37% poverty rate. Nestled in green hills, this rural town across the…
CCUSA participates in ‘Owning Slavery, Pursuing Justice, Seeking Reconciliation’
Story - May 10, 2021 - The work of Georgetown University and the Jesuits in reckoning with the history of owning and selling enslaved people may hold lessons for the rest of the Catholic Church and American society, said several panelists at an April 29 discussion at the university. Joseph M. Stewart, the acting president of the Descendants Truth & Reconciliation…
Catholic Charities steps in when an ‘American dream’ unravels
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Story - April 29, 2021 - Marie and Bob worked all their lives to become homeowners. They lived comfortably on their two stable incomes. But six years ago, their hard-earned American Dream started to unravel before their eyes. They found out they had been victims of predatory lending, and they were forced to foreclose, declare bankruptcy, and move out of their…
Sisters fund eviction prevention as millions owe back rent
Story - April 13, 2021 - As the pandemic provoked shutdowns across the United States in March 2020, Jason’s stress level began to climb. He had to handle cash as an essential employee selling car parts at an AutoZone in McKinney, Texas, a state with no mask mandate. His precarious health — asthma, sarcoidosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, allergies — put…
Catholic coalition stresses need for COVID-19 vaccine for all
Story - April 8, 2021 - On World Health Day, April 7, a new group of 31 U.S. Catholic organizations encouraged people to get the COVID-19 vaccine as an act of charity and solidarity with others. The group also emphasized the need for vaccine equity in the United States and around the world. “This is a clarion call for us to…
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 San Antonio helps to care for migrant children
Story - March 30, 2021 - After conversations with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio (CCAOSA) has been involved in preparing the newest migrant youth site in San Antonio to welcome and care for unaccompanied migrant children. Hundreds of volunteers from CCAOSA, Valero, and a couple of…