Story - August 11, 2015 - Adoption is an option. That’s the message Kim Harrell of Catholic Charities in Arlington, Va., wants women with a crisis pregnancy to understand. Most only see two options:  parenting their child or having an abortion. In presenting adoption as a third option, Harrell, director of pregnancy services and adoption, helps expectant mothers understand what adoption…

Story - September 9, 2015 - Eat, Love, Sway! That’s the message Catholic Charities of the Central Coast in the Diocese of Monterey, California, is sending to the people in its new Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention (NEOP) program. They hope participants will learn to make healthy choices about food, nutrition and exercise. The core of the Nutrition Education and Obesity…

Story - July 28, 2021 - By By Susan Smith, Communications and Grants Coordinator, Catholic Charities of Louisville Staff at Catholic Charities of Louisville like to tell people that during the pandemic their services never lapsed. For example, the Sister Visitor Center didn’t miss one day of providing food and emergency financial assistance to people in Louisville’s poorest neighborhoods and the Language…

Story - September 21, 2022 - When people are experiencing behavioral health challenges or symptoms that fall under the umbrella of dementia, they often do not require a level of medical care that would necessitate assisted living. But their behavioral health challenges can prevent them from being discharged from care in a timely fashion. As a result, patients may remain hospitalized…

Story - December 1, 2021 - By Maura Sullivan Hill When Sister Jen Berridge visits patients in their rooms at Wheeling Hospital, more often than not she comes bearing gifts: a box of groceries, paper goods, and hygiene products from the on-site Catholic Charities food pantry for the patient to take home.  As the Hospital Transition Program case manager for Catholic Charities West Virginia (CC WVa.), Sister Jen supports vulnerable West Virginians to ensure a safe and…

Story - August 16, 2021 - A Catholic Charities official in southern Texas who oversees outreach to hundreds of migrant families entering the United States daily has asked a federal court to allow the agency to continue its mission of serving vulnerable people. Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in the Brownsville Diocese, said…

Story - April 21, 2020 - In 2018, Alessandro DiSanto quit a promising job in finance to join friends in starting an app for Catholics centered around meditation and prayer. That app, Hallow, is now the top Catholic app in app stores, has 150,000 downloads in 50 countries and has been used to pray over 1 million times, according to DiSanto.…

Story - October 21, 2019 - “He probably would have killed me,” said Sara when asked where she thought she would be without Catholic Social Services. When Sara decided to leave one December morning two years ago, it was not because the previous night’s fight had been the first to get violent. They had plenty of physical altercations in their nine…

Story - September 26, 2016 - The word “gleaning” may bring to mind the biblical book of Ruth in which its eponymous character gleans grain from the fields of Boaz. “Gleaning” refers to the ancient practice of allowing poor people to harvest the surplus produce from a farmer’s field. Despite its early origins gleaning still happens today wherever there are farms,…

Story - August 2, 2021 - The Biden administration filed a lawsuit July 30 against the state of Texas, trying to stop enforcement of an order aimed at migrants that it calls “dangerous and unlawful.” The order seeks to prevent anyone, except state or federal authorities, from transporting migrants who may have crossed the border illegally. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued…

Story - September 13, 2018 - After the devastating loss of her mother, Victoria’s life turned upside down. “She was my backbone, and when she died, I gave up on life all together.” Overwhelmed with grief and depression, Victoria got addicted to drugs, lost her job and became homeless. She remembers begging God every day for the strength to go on.…

Story - August 12, 2016 - “If you like your life, if you want to live, you have to escape. You cannot fight, you have to escape. You have two options. Nomore.” Edrees worked as an interpreter for the United States Army and other American organizations when he was in Iraq. Every day he lived in constant fear for his life…