Tag: Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities to expand housing for homeless in Minneapolis
On the heels of finishing its $100 million Dorothy Day Place renovation and expansion of homeless shelter, apartments, meals and social services in St. Paul, Catholic Charities is expanding housing for the homeless in Minneapolis.
Adoption offered gift of life; reunion 46 years later an unexpected gift
Thanks to the courage of a teenage birth mother and the work of Catholic Charities of Tennessee, St. Henry parishioner Matt Davis received the greatest of all gifts: the gift of life, and a loving adoptive family.
Four more charged in fraud scheme against Catholic Charities
Investigation of a scheme to fraudulently obtain at least $684,000 from funds for the homeless at Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis has resulted in charges against four more people.
Summer soccer clinics helping refugee youths feel like part of community
Through a new partnership between Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Louisville and the Louisville City Football Club — a professional soccer club — refugee youth are finding joy in a familiar past time.
Like mother before her, Miss Minnesota shaped by faith
Kathryn Kueppers was shaking in the final moments before the 2019 Miss Minnesota was named June 22.
Catholic Charities’ Higher Ground: Multi-service approach to homelessness
Two large encampments of homeless people, one in St. Paul, another in Minneapolis, drew unprecedented attention this fall and winter to the plight of people unable to afford a home, including the working poor, unemployed, mentally ill and intellectually disabled.
Shutdown finds Catholic Charities agencies working to meet growing needs
Robert Archie knows he’d be homeless if it wasn’t for the Rapid Re-housing program run by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey.
Catholic Charities strove to meet challenges of natural disasters
Hurricane, fire, flood and even earthquake, Catholic Charities agencies did their best to help thousands of their fellow residents through some of the worst natural disasters they had ever encountered.
Catholic groups see major harm for immigrants in changing public benefits
A proposal by the Trump administration to deny green cards to legal immigrants using public assistance “will dramatically change the process of legal migration and make it increasingly difficult for low-income and working-class individuals to legally migrate to the United States.”
U.S. reports poverty declines, but agencies finding needs remain great
The good news from the U.S. Census Bureau Sept. 12 was that the poverty rate dropped for the third straight year in 2017 and median family incomes ticked up 1.8 percent to nearly $61,400.
At hearing, Kavanaugh highlights his Catholic Charities’ volunteer work
During the second day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 5, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh said his experience serving the homeless with Catholic Charities and tutoring at Washington Jesuit Academy has influenced him as a judge because of the importance of “standing in the shoes of others.”
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