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Fostering a faith-based support network
Story - February 16, 2022 - Deadly pandemics are nothing new to the 104-year-old organization known as Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Founded in 1917 as the Spanish Influenza Epidemic was sweeping the globe, Catholic Charities originated as a central charity intended to relieve the burden on Catholic parishes as they struggled to meet the needs of the poor…
St. Matthew Project in Detroit reflects parish partnership
Story - February 11, 2022 - For the second time in as many years, Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan (CCSEM) CEO Paul Propson addressed the MorningSide, East English Village, & Cornerstone Village Community Advocates (MECCA) Development Corporation about the development of affordable housing at the nearby St. Matthew School. While last year’s address focused on CCSEM’s plans, Paul was eager to…
Gonzaga Family Haven welcomes first residents
Story - February 11, 2022 - A new chapter began last fall for the 73 families that will join the Gonzaga Family Haven (GFH) community in coming months, the result of hard work and collaboration between Catholic Charities Eastern Washington (CCEW) and community partners at Gonzaga University and Gonzaga Preparatory School. GFH offers a full range of supportive services on-site to…
Despite reducing poverty, expanded child tax credit’s future at risk
Story - January 18, 2022 - A few weeks before Christmas, Jessica Moreno and her three kids were able to move from her parents’ home in Wood Dale, Illinois, outside of Chicago, to their own apartment a few blocks away. “The apartment was heaven sent,” she said. “I was looking at homelessness. I can’t imaging being in that situation with three…
Finding foster care support for a very full house
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Story - March 26, 2021 - Rebecca has always wanted to adopt. Inspired by the selflessness of Mother Teresa, Rebecca took her famous words to heart: “There are no great things, only small things done with great love.” “I try to live a life that helps others,” explained Rebecca, managing attorney of a statewide nonprofit that advocates for people with disabilities.…
Bishop urges parishes to network to serve the most vulnerable
Story - March 17, 2021 - For a society, a world, struggling through “a time of pervasive darkness,” Youngstown Bishop David J. Bonnar asked: “What are we to do in the midst of this long night?” In his pastoral letter to diocesan Catholics, titled “Testify to the Light,” he also asks: “How do we help one another to come out of…
Biden team to review Trump immigration policies prior to reversal
Story - February 4, 2021 - Policy watchers expect an immigrant-friendly path forward from U.S. President Joe Biden, who signed a trio of executive orders Feb. 2, mostly reviewing immigration directives from his predecessor for possible reversal. But what that path forward will look like still is not clear. Biden’s team seems to be laying out the groundwork for short-term and…
A force of nature, she’s doing God’s work on pandemic’s front lines
Story - January 28, 2021 - She’s a diminutive woman whose work is not the stuff of headlines. You probably don’t know her name. You probably won’t recognize her face. But ask the people who are lining up for groceries at an outdoor food pantry in a windblown parking lot on Columbia Road in Dorchester as a life-altering pandemic rages on,…
Trump administration drops refugee cap to historic low
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Story - October 5, 2020 - The steep slope, appearing almost as a vertical line, is a stunning mark by the Trump administration on what was once a refugee program recognized around the world as a model to welcome the tyrannized and persecuted masses. Late Sept. 30, the administration announced it would bring the refugee cap — the maximum number of…
As parishes reopen, mental and spiritual health care need attention
Story - May 13, 2020 - When parishioners begin returning to their churches as pandemic restrictions are gradually lifted, the buildings will look the same, but the environment might feel different because of new social-distancing measures. For example, in Houston, a young adult woman who went to Sunday Mass the first weekend in May when her parish reopened for public Mass,…
Pandemic adds increasing burdens on immigrants without legal status
Story - April 2, 2020 - From a darkened room, the immigrant spoke in mid-March via Skype to a reporter from the TV station Guatevision, which focuses on issues pertaining to Guatemalans in and outside of the country. He told her that in Ohio, where he lives, though the community has been generally kind without regard to a person’s immigration status,…
The American Dream, unraveled
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Story - July 2, 2019 - 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…