The Supreme Court on April 22 heard a case concerning the constitutionality of local laws that ban public camping and their impact on people who are homeless.
Gary Bowman was furloughed from his job in Dallas because of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, shortly after he converted to the Catholic faith and entered the Church at the Easter Vigil in 2019.
An affordable home for 173 single adults who have experienced homelessness — particularly veterans — a recuperative care unit and a health care clinic will open soon in a $75 million public-private partnership in Minneapolis led by Catholic Charities, officials announced May 18.
On Dec. 9, Psyrenity, 39, had run out of money and was without a place to call home. Friends who had been helping her were out of cash, too. So, she packed her bags at a St. Paul hotel where she had been staying, and figured she and her two children, ages 11 and 9, would need to sleep outside that night. It was cold. And Psyrenity, pronounced "Serenity," was panicking.
To listen to the Holy Spirit, members of the church must listen to each other and especially to those who are marginalized, Pope Francis said, explaining how dioceses are to help the church prepare for the Synod of Bishops.
The day after Thanksgiving in Advents past, the Rev. Billy could be found at 5:30 a.m. in front of Macy’s flagship store in midtown Manhattan. “Stop shopping!” he shouts at the bundled figures pushing past him in the dark carrying their full shopping bags. “Stop shopping.”
When Katelyn Stumler's husband, Craig, needed someone to cover his volunteer shift at a New Albany homeless shelter for two hours on a cold night in February, "begrudgingly, I said I'd do it," she admitted.
Enough cheese to make more than 320,000 sandwiches was delivered April 16 to Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis as one Wisconsin dairy cooperative's way to help in the midst of a pandemic crisis.
After celebrating Easter Sunday Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, Archbishop Bernard Hebda made an important stop in St. Paul.
He helped serve a noon meal to the homeless at Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ Dorothy Day Place, which includes a shelter, social services and long-term, low-cost apartments for the needy. He and Tim Marx, president and CEO of Catholic Charities, who also helped cook the meal, worked with several others at the serving line April 12, with gloves and masks on to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
During his livestreamed daily morning Mass, Pope Francis prayed that the coronavirus pandemic may awaken people's consciences to the plight of homeless men and women suffering in the world.
Sheltering the homeless, keeping kids safe at school, decriminalizing poverty