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Sunset Point Camp: A second home for campers
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Story - January 9, 2019 - Sunset Point Camp, a program of Catholic Charities Greater Boston, has been providing a summer camp experience to children from low-income families for 99 years. Campers range in age from six to 14 years old. They spend a week at the overnight camp in Hull, Massachusetts, participating in activities that otherwise they would have no…
CCUSA welcomes passage of Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act
News - March 22, 2016 - Alexandria, Va. (March 22, 2016) — Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) welcomes the passage by Congress and the signing into law by President Obama of the Evidence-based Policymaking Commission Act, which will create a 15-person commission to discern the best way for the federal government to organize, protect, and analyze data to improve public policy. “The…
Elderly couple survives, thrives after Hurricane Ian
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Story - May 9, 2023 - ORLANDO | James and Phyllis Masteller weathered many hurricanes in their more than 80 years of life, but none like Hurricane Ian. Living in Naples Land Yacht Harbor, close to a canal and just one mile from the coast, the couple planned to evacuate because of heavy winds set to slice right through the city.…
Prayer for victims of human trafficking
Prayer & Reflection - February 7, 2017 - Opening Prayer Living God, you freed the people of Israel from cruel slavery in Egypt and led them to a promised land “flowing with milk and honey.” We ask you to liberate today all the children, women, and men who are enslaved by the cruel yoke of human trafficking in our nation, and around the…
Managing homelessness in central New Jersey
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Story - March 1, 2018 - Behind the statistics of homelessness in Central New Jersey are real people like Flory, who, with a little temporary housing assistance from Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton, can pull themselves out of homelessness. A smart, easy-going elderly woman, Flory, was living on the streets several months ago. At this low point in her life, when…
CCUSA continues to support Maui recovery efforts
https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/2023/10/23/ccusa-continues-to-support-maui-recovery-efforts/
News - October 23, 2023 - More than two months after deadly wildfires devastated Maui, Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) continues to support recovery efforts through a dedicated fundraising drive and close coordination with Catholic Charities Hawai’i. CCUSA, the official disaster relief arm of the Catholic Church in the United States, launched a national fundraising effort in the immediate aftermath of the…
Thursday of the third week of Lent, 2023
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Prayer & Reflection - March 16, 2023 - “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” Today’s readings and response are centered around turning towards God and opening up our hearts to Him and His will. We hear that of all the people, ever since their “fathers left the land of Egypt,” no one has obeyed God. They have toiled over…
A promise of blooms
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Prayer & Reflection - December 11, 2023 - “The desert and the parched land will exult; the steppe will rejoice and bloom.They will bloom with abundant flowers, and rejoice with joyful song.”-Isaiah 35:1-2 In times of struggle in our work it can be reassuring to imagine ourselves “planting seeds.” Sometimes we see the fruit of our work and sometimes things remain dormant for…
Catholic Charities responds to pandemic
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Story - August 11, 2020 - By David Werning, Managing Editor On the first day of January 2020, coronavirus for many people in the United States was a mysterious disease happening somewhere else. Just three months later, most people not only recognized the term and its specific designation, COVID-19, but also acted to slow its spread. By March 2020, COVID-19 had swept…
King of his castle after first time homebuyer class
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Story - June 16, 2016 - Hector Salgado bought his very first home with confidence. He knew it was a residence he could manage. He crunched the numbers. Salgado was tired of renting and spent several months searching for a home to purchase. He had a good credit score and planned to apply for a loan but was uncertain about what…
Local businesses and FeedMore of Western New York share their excess
Story - April 14, 2020 - Yesterday, Catholic Charities food pantry staff, as well as employees from its Workforce and Education and Immigration and Refugee Assistance Program, pitched in to pick up and sort eggs, pastries, vegetables, fruit and more for distribution to the agency’s nine food pantries in three counties (Erie, Cattaraugus and Allegany). More than 500 dozen eggs and…
CCUSA, Topashaw Farm, USDA get food to families during pandemic
Story - October 13, 2020 - Pope Francis commented in his encyclical, Fratelli tutti, that the Covid-19 pandemic has reminded the world’s inhabitants “that we are a global community, …that we are brothers and sisters of one another” (No. 32). The pope’s words may have no better illustration than the wonderful events that have occurred in a corner of Mississippi. The…