News - May 4, 2017 - Alexandria, Va. – Sister Donna Markham OP, PhD, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) expressed her deep concern about today’s vote by the House of Representatives to replace the Affordable Care Act with the American Health Care Act (AHCA). “The vote falls far short of protecting the millions of Americans who have insurance…

News - July 19, 2022 - Alexandria, Va. – In a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State, U.S. Catholic leaders expressed gratitude for several recent country designations for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and called for the same status for additional countries that are experiencing armed conflict, environmental disasters and other dangerous conditions. Catholic Charities USA…

Story - December 1, 2021 - By Tara McMullen A patient awakens in a hospital room. Bright lights. Beeping monitors. A nurse enters and informs them they’ve been revived from an opiate overdose. They were lucky this time. Would they like to speak with someone about recovery?  Here in this hospital room is where the Max Kolbe Program (MAX), a unique intervention program launched by Catholic Charities, Diocese of Cleveland (CC…

Story - July 30, 2019 - When a medical crisis sent a recent immigrant into a downward spiral, he lacked the safety net to rebound to self-sufficiency. Catholic Social Services’ Guadalupe Center staff intervened to prevent his family from becoming homeless. When Javier relocated to Columbus from Venezuela, he found stable work doing construction and settled his wife and 5-year old…

Member - August 14, 2015 - For 75 years, Catholic Charities has served the poor and vulnerable in the Diocese of Charlotte. Today, Catholic Charities distributes food and clothing and provides homelessness prevention, family enrichment, refugee resettlement, burial assistance programs and more.

Story - December 8, 2020 - Here at Catholic Social Services (CSS), stories of strife flood in from the community on a weekly basis. This is a particularly difficult one to tell. It happened today. This morning, at our St. Francis Center in Portsmouth, the center’s Director, Barbara McKenzie, heard the usual Wednesday morning ruckus of the garbage truck collecting its…

Member - August 17, 2015 - For over 95 years, Vermont Catholic Charities is proud to have been providing services to individuals and families throughout our state. Our programs support the young and the elderly, individuals and families, the imprisoned and the newly released. Our goal is to enhance the dignity, self-respect, confidence and personal development of individuals whose lives are…

News - November 22, 2014 - Alexandria, Virginia (November 21, 2014) – Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), one of the largest networks of social services providers in this country, responded to the executive action on immigration announced last night by President Obama by calling it an important step towards protecting immigrants and strengthening families. The decision moves our nation closer towards creating…

Story - January 8, 2019 - “The opium that you sent is pure and of good quality. I hope you will take care of the seed,” wrote Dr. Thomas Bond of Philadelphia to a Pennsylvania farmer on August 24, 1781 (Proceedings, American Pharmaceutical Association, 13 (1865) 5:1). Opiates were legally and freely accessible in the United States from physicians, drug and…

Story - May 16, 2016 - Ernest and Hattie Laday, husband and wife of 43 years, were living on a fixed income when Hurricane Isaac swept through their town of Lutcher, LA. They had no insurance or money to repair their home. Disaster recovery provided by Catholic Charities played a key role in getting them back to a place of self-sufficiency.…

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News - June 24, 2022 - Alexandria, Va — In response to today’s Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, CCUSA issued the following: As we have since our founding more than 100 years ago, CCUSA remains committed to walking in solidarity with all those who come to our doors, whether they are girls or women in crisis pregnancies or…