Category: Catholic Charities USA

Florida continues with rescue efforts as Hurricane Ian heads north

by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2022 | Bishop Frank J. Dewane, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of St. Petersburg, Hurricane, News | 0 |

Authorities in Florida continued rescue efforts Sept. 30, and Catholic parishes and dioceses in the U.S. moved rapidly to collect aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian as President Joe Biden said it could take years to rebuild what was destroyed.

Catholic leaders call for Congressional action to help Dreamers

by bcadmin | Aug 26, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Church in the US, Congress, DACA, dreamers, lead, News, USCCB | 0 |

Catholic leaders and organizations that work with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients consider new policy protections announced by the Biden administration a largely inconsequential, step forward.

Amid grief and loss, long-term recovery is on horizon for eastern Kentucky

by bcadmin | Aug 11, 2022 | Biden, Breathitt County, Catholic Charities USA, Deadly flooding, diocese of Lexington, Featured, Hazard, Kentucky, Mother of Good Counsel Church, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Mother of Good Counsel Church in Hazard, Kentucky, tolled its bell as Mass ended Aug. 7, while parishioners named a litany of communities devastated by deadly flooding at the end of July.

Catholic leaders urge protection for Syrian, Venezuelan refugees

by bcadmin | Jul 20, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, lead, News, Refugee crisis, Syria, Temporary Protected Status, Venezuela | 0 |

Catholic immigration leaders are calling on the Biden administration to redesignate Venezuela and Syria for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), citing the ongoing humanitarian crises that exist in each country.

Catholic leaders urge stronger gun control measures on state, federal level

by bcadmin | Jun 5, 2022 | archbishop bernard hebda, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Health Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Gun control, mass shooting, News | 0 |

Several U.S. bishops, women’s religious orders and Catholic organizations have called for stricter federal gun control measures, while state Catholic conferences have rallied behind local measures attempting to curb the spate of gun violence.

Broad effort to pass bill supporting pregnant workers focuses on Senate

by bcadmin | Feb 13, 2022 | Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, Archbishop Paul Coakley, Bishop David Konderla, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Pregnancy, pro-life, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Workers' rights | 0 |

Amid all the political sniping in Congress, one bill has gained strong bipartisan support and is poised to become law.

Despite reducing poverty, expanded child tax credit’s future is uncertain

by bcadmin | Jan 16, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic News Service, children, Church in the US, food insecurity, Homelessness, News, Poverty, Taxes, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, U.S. Congress | 0 |

A few weeks before Christmas, Jessica Moreno and her three kids were able to move from her parents’ home in Wood Dale, Illinois, outside of Chicago, to their own apartment a few blocks away.

Immediate, long-term relief: Catholic agencies’ response to 2021 disasters

by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2021 | 2021 disasters, Catholic Charities USA, Disasters, Emergency response, Featured, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Right up through December, extreme weather events and natural disasters of 2021 continued to upend local communities and set agendas for domestic and overseas emergency response efforts at major Catholic aid organizations.

Kentucky bishop after tornadoes: People ‘resilient’ in face of tragedy

by bcadmin | Dec 14, 2021 | Catholic Charities USA, Church in the US, Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky, lead, Natural disasters, News | 0 |

The tearful homilies that Kentucky pastor Father David Kennedy gave on Sunday morning, worried about the well-being of one community of parishioners, turned hopeful by day’s end as he gave a private Mass to a parishioner that escaped a tornado.

Faith leaders seek religious protections in Build Back Better childcare provisions

by bcadmin | Dec 2, 2021 | Biden Administration, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Catholic Charities USA, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, lead, National Catholic Educational Association, News, President Joe Biden, Religious education, Religious exemptions, USCCB | 0 |

In a new letter to U.S. congressional leaders, religious leaders call for changes to the child care and universal pre-kindergarten provisions in the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better Act that won’t indirectly exclude religious providers.

Case manager, once a refugee himself, helps Afghans prosper in new life

by bcadmin | Nov 20, 2021 | Afghanistan, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, Kurds, News, Tennessee | 0 |

Sarwar Hawez is one of eight case managers helping the Afghans who will be resettled in Nashville after being evacuated out of Kabul, Afghanistan, following the takeover of the country by the Taliban.

CRS stresses unity in its efforts to serve people around the world

by bcadmin | Nov 19, 2021 | Bishop Frank Caggiano, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, News, USCCB, USCCB fall assembly | 0 |

Catholic Relief Services has demonstrated how it has worked with other Catholic agencies as “one church” to respond to debilitating humanitarian crises around the world, CRS leaders told U.S. bishops gathered for their fall general assembly.