Member - August 17, 2015 - Since 1932, Catholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle has been providing help and creating hope for the most vulnerable within our community. It all started with a soup kitchen and has grown over the last 90 years to further the value and dignity of all human life. From feeding the elderly and disabled to pregnancy…

Member - August 14, 2015 - Services

Story - January 21, 2016 - Kim came to our Homeless Services Center “a broken woman,” as she called herself. Born in Ukiah, California, Kim was a bright young woman who graduated college with a business degree. She worked for a Fortune 500 company in San Francisco, then moved back to Ukiah for her “dream job” as the sports editor for…

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…

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…

Story - July 26, 2019 - After almost two decades of abuse, two kidnappings, escapes and almost getting killed, human trafficking survivor, Flor Turcio, shared her story of terror and how Catholic Charities of Central Florida helped her through it. When Catholic Charities caseworker, Rosa Alamo, first spoke to Turcio in 2013, she was shocked. “It was something like a movie…

News - October 14, 2021 - The Honorable Nancy PelosiSpeaker, U.S. House of Representatives The Honorable Chuck SchumerMajority Leader, U.S. Senate  The Honorable Mitch McConnellMinority Leader, U.S. Senate  The Honorable Kevin McCarthyMinority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell and Leader McCarthy: Catholic Charities USA represents 167 Catholic Charities agencies operating 3,000 sites across all 50…

Member - August 13, 2015 - Services

News - March 17, 2016 - Catholic Charities USA, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committees on Domestic Justice and Human Development and International Justice and Peace, Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Rural Life address the moral and human dimensions of FY 2017 Agriculture Appropriations in letters to the corresponding subcommittees of both the House and the Senate. The letters…

Member - August 14, 2015 - Catholic Charities NY helps solve the problems of New Yorkers in need – non-Catholics and Catholics alike. The neglected child, the homeless family, and the hungry senior are among those for whom we provide help and create hope. We rebuild lives and touch almost every human need promptly, locally, day in and day out, always…

News - May 18, 2023 - As the President and congressional leaders continue discussions this week regarding the debt ceiling, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities USA, and Catholic Relief Services wrote to Congress to address the moral and human dimensions of the ongoing budget debate. In light of the national deficit and inflation, Congress faces difficult choices…

Prayer & Reflection - March 14, 2023 - Jesus talks about forgiveness a lot for someone who, being a perfect person, presumably never needed to be forgiven himself. He only did the hard part – freely forgiving others for their wrongdoings while never experiencing the consolation of being forgiven by someone else. Why is it that the same sinful nature which requires me…