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 - August 11, 2015 - For the first time – after a state of emergency was declared due to a water crisis in West Virginia – Catholic Charities West Virginia was able to provide a quick, effective method for local residents to respond to a disaster by accepting cash donations through text messaging. Funds raised through the text2give campaign supported…

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 - April 29, 2016 - In 2001, when Pamela was just seven years old, violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo forced her to flee to safety in the Mayukwayukwa refugee camp in Zambia. She lived there for eight years with her sister, with almost no hope of a better future. After all, less than one percent of refugees are…

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…

Story - January 3, 2019 - Families in Waterbury, Connecticut, who struggle putting food on the table may have a solution right outside their front door. Meet the GROW truck – Groceries on Wheels – a mobile food pantry program that goes where the need is greatest. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Hartford partners with the Connecticut Food Bank, operator…

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 - January 20, 2021 - Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Omaha, Inc. started a three-year project to deliver the online Catholic Charities of Omaha Microbusiness Program to 315 budding entrepreneurs served at six Catholic Charities member agencies across the US. The result was the creation of 150 new businesses and 160 jobs. The project expands on a proven microbusiness…

Story - February 11, 2022 - As a part of CCUSA’s Healthy Housing Initiative, Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada (CCSN) has been providing residential services case management at our low-income St. Vincent Apartments. In December 2021, Dignity Health generously renewed its support of this program, allowing us to continue providing client-centered, trauma-informed and intensive case management to some of the most…

Story - June 24, 2021 - Officials overseeing Catholic Charities-connected housing initiatives are calling on Congress to boost funding and expand tax credits for affordable housing programs that serve older adults and homeless people. Three officials made their pitch to congressional staffers during an online briefing arranged by Catholic Charities USA June 23 on behalf of a growing number of people…

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 - January 23, 2020 - “You ask yourself every day whether or not you should have come when your life in one place was in danger, and you arrive at another and are still at risk,” said José, who fled Cuba last May. “It’s been hard to adapt. When I came, I thought I would be treated differently. I thought…