Deacon: Amid Puerto Rico’s long road to recovery, its people are resilient
Deacon Asterio Velasco, director of Hispanic ministry for the Newark Archdiocese, is concerned about Puerto Rico.
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by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2022 | Catholic Extension, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Hurricane, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, News, Puerto Rico | 0 |
Deacon Asterio Velasco, director of Hispanic ministry for the Newark Archdiocese, is concerned about Puerto Rico.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 23, 2022 | Arizona, Catholic Extension, Diocese of Tucson, Featured, Jean Fedigan, Lumen Christi Award, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Jean Fedigan, founder of a nonprofit in the Diocese of Tucson, Arizona, that serves homeless and trafficked women, is the 2022-2023 recipient of Catholic Extension’s Lumen Christi Award.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Catholic Extension, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, News, school shooting | 0 |
Thanks to tuition help from Catholic Extension, children who were wounded in the Robb Elementary School mass shooting in Uvalde can transfer to a local Catholic school.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 7, 2022 | Catholic Extension, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, school shooting, Texas | 0 |
Chicago-based Catholic Extension launched the first of many initiatives it has planned over the next 18 months to support Uvalde, Texas, following the devastation of the Robb Elementary mass shooting.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 28, 2022 | Catholic Extension, Catholic Health Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Sister Carol Keehan | 0 |
Sister Carol Keehan, who led the Catholic Health Association of the United States for 13 years as president and CEO and was a longtime advocate of health care reform, received the Spirit of Francis Award from Catholic Extension.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2022 | Catholic Extension, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | 0 |
During a March 25-April 1 trip to Poland along its border with Ukraine, U.S. Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Bohdan J. Danylo planned to meet with charitable organizations as well as minister and provide relief to displaced Ukrainian refugees and children.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 5, 2022 | Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Catholic Extension, Catholic News Service, charity, Church in the US, News | 0 |
Catholic Extension honored Raye G. White, a native of Houston, with its fifth annual Spirit of Francis Award “for her passion and commitment” to the faith community in the Houston area.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 5, 2021 | Cardinal Blase Cupich, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Catholic Extension, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Cuba, News | 0 |
Catholic Extension named New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan as the recipient of its seventh annual Spirit of Francis Award for his solidarity with the Catholic Church in Cuba and his “advocacy for the weak and marginalized.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 3, 2021 | Cardinal Blase Cupich, Catholic Extension, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Puerto Rico | 0 |
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago said Catholic communities on Puerto Rico are feeling dispirited by the lack of recovery more than four years after a pair of hurricanes destroyed schools, homes, businesses and churches.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Alaska, Catholic Extension, Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Fairbanks, indigenous communities, Native Americans, News | 0 |
Father Stan Jaszek, a missionary priest from Poland who is serving Native Alaskans in the Diocese of Fairbanks, has been named the recipient of Catholic Extension’s 2021-2022 Lumen Christi Award.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2021 | Bering Sea, Catholic Extension, Father Stan Jaszek, Lumen Christi Award, News, Poland, Solidarity movement, St. John Paul, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Father Stan Jaszek, a missionary priest from Poland who is serving Native Alaskans in the Diocese of Fairbanks, has been named the recipient of Catholic Extension’s 2021-2022 Lumen Christi Award.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 26, 2021 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Catholic Extension, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, News | 0 |
Just as the “perilous state of the natural and social environments” drove Pope Francis to speak of “our one, shared common home,” so too does the worldwide aspect of migration “and desperate flight,” a Vatican official said.
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