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CCUSA urges orderly, humane termination of Title 42

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2022/04/27/ccusa-and-usccb-urge-congress-to-work-with-the-administration-to-ensure-title-42-is-terminated-in-an-orderly-and-humane-manner/

News - April 27, 2022 - Alexandria, Va. โ€” Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) President and CEO, Sister Donna Markham, OP, PhD, and Bishop Mario Dorsonville, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington and Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, sent a letter to Congress today expressing concern over several measures that would prolong the misuse of Title 42.…

CCUSA heralds Pope Francis encyclical as โ€œlight for our timeโ€

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2015/06/18/catholic-charities-usa-heralds-pope-francis-encyclical-as-aeoelight-for-our-timeae%ef%bf%bd/

News - June 18, 2015 - Alexandria, Va. (June 18, 2015) – In response to today’s release of Laudato Si’ (“Praised be You”), Pope Francis’ second encyclical, Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) President Sr. Donna Markham, OP, PhD, said she hopes its message will inform, inspire, and influence discussion about how our obligation to care for creation is as essential as our…

Vaccine outreach at Catholic Charities

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/vaccine-outreach-at-catholic-charities/

Story - March 25, 2021 - Nurses and volunteers from the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey recently stopped by Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton’s Linkages program in Tinton Falls, N.J., to administer COVID-19 vaccines to the families, staff and volunteers there, as well as other members of the community. Linkages is transitional housing for families and individuals exiting homelessness in…

CCUSA announces bold “Healthy Housing Initiative” to reduce homelessness

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2019/02/11/catholic-charities-usa-announces-bold-healthy-housing-initiative/

News - February 11, 2019 - Alexandria, Va. โ€” Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) has named five Catholic Charities agencies that will be initial participants in an ambitious Healthy Housing Initiative aimed at reducing chronic homelessness by 20 percent over five years in five US cities; decreasing hospital readmission rates for this population by at least 25 percent; and connecting 35 percent…

Removing extreme tattoos frees people to forge new life paths

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/removing-extreme-tattoos-frees-people-to-forge-a-new-path-in-life/

Story - August 11, 2015 - The Tattoo Removal program of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Monterey, CA works to help people who want to forge a new path in life by removing their most egregious tattoos-tattoos with dark meanings such as gang symbols, swastikas, profane words and phrases, racist slogans, macabre images, and marks that signal violence, abuse, and…

Catholic leaders call for climate action

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2015/10/28/catholic-leaders-call-for-climate-action/

News - October 28, 2015 - Today, CCUSA President and CEO Sister Donna Markham joined Dr. Carolyn Woo (Catholic Relief Services), Archbishop Thomas Wenski (USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development), and Bishop Oscar Cantu (USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace) in urging policymakers in Congress and the US State Department to position the United States as a leader…

The new solar field of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Washington

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/protecting-the-gift-of-nature-yields-win-win-for-agency-the-new-solar-field-of-catholic-charities-archdiocese-of-washington/

Story - February 5, 2020 - In the Archdiocese of Washington, we were blessed to dedicate a new solar array on Oct. 17, 2019. Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, joined us, as well as Archbishop Wilton Gregory, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, and Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C. All spoke glowingly of this effort…