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When women learn domestic abuse is not their fault, they begin to heal
Story - September 15, 2015 - Abused women live with a great deal of shame and guilt. Isolated from family and friends, beaten, and shamed, they begin to believe what they’re told-that the abuse is their fault. But at Harbor House, a domestic violence shelter and outreach program of Catholic Charities, Diocese of Wichita in Kansas, abused women learn something else.…
Providing relief after Hurricane Laura
Story - September 8, 2020 - A week ago, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio, Inc. received a request from Bishop David L. Toups of the Diocese of Beaumont, Texas, asking for our help in providing bottled water and shelf-stable food to the people affected by Hurricane Laura. We immediately sent a request by newsletter and social media to our community…
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…
Meet Marisol: A journey toward self-sufficiency
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Story - July 16, 2021 - Two children, six suitcases and $300. This is all Marisol had when she arrived in Columbus five years ago to start her new life. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, she’d lost both her home and her job in Puerto Rico. She arrived in Ohio with her savings depleted, but faced an even greater challenge…
With us along the way
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Prayer & Reflection - February 25, 2024 - Is anyone else struggling with the readings for today? I don’t think you have to be a parent to balk at the image of Abraham offering up his only son. We know that this prefigures God’s own willingness to offer His only Son for our sake. And yet…. Paul’s letter to the early church in…
Catholic Charities New Hampshire launches crisis fund
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Story - March 31, 2020 - Catholic Charities New Hampshire announced the creation of the Catholic Charities NH Crisis Fund, which will provide direct assistance to help individuals and families most impacted by times of crisis, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. The Catholic Charities NH Crisis Fund will support immediate needs, including: Emergency financial relief assistance for individuals and families…
A journal of recovery efforts in U.S. Virgin Islands: September 25, 2017
Story - September 26, 2017 - The most immediate challenge facing Catholic Charities of the Virgin Islands in the wake of back-to-back monster storms is finding a home for the people who were living at Bethlehem House in Kingshill, St. Croix, when it was badly damaged last week by Hurricane Maria. The residents had been evacuated to public disaster shelters before…
Catholic Charities ministry to combine housing, healthcare services
Story - May 6, 2019 - Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), with five Catholic Charities member agencies, has launched a Healthy Housing Initiative that combines health and housing services to help homeless people remain off the streets. The five agencies are Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan (Detroit); Catholic Charities of St. Louis (St. Louis, Mo.); Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas);…
Welcoming weary migrants with care and compassion
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Story - August 12, 2015 - When thousands of weary migrants, mostly unaccompanied minors, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in the summer of 2014, the Catholic Charities network responded, providing these weary and desperate travelers with a place to rest, food, medical care, clothes, supplies, and, above all, compassion. After being apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and then released…
Wednesday of the second week of Advent, 2022
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Prayer & Reflection - December 7, 2022 - “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” The end of a long shift, a long day, a long trip, a long week…how many times do we feel burdened, seeking nothing more than to set down our load, breathe slowly, and close our eyes? The sweet rest…
Hunger grows in one of America’s wealthiest counties
Story - April 24, 2020 - Even in a county long acknowledged as one of the 20 wealthiest in the United States, there are people at risk of going hungry. Only now there are more of them. It used to be that the Catholic Charities Family Center in Montgomery County, Maryland, would help about 150 people each week acquire enough food…
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…