Catholic Charities USA

Catholic coalition stresses importance of COVID-19 vaccine for all
- Apr 8, 2021
On World Health Day, April 7, a new group of 31 U.S. Catholic organizations encouraged people to get the COVID-19 vaccine as an act of charity and solidarity with others.

By Carol Zimmermann
American Rescue Plan praised for helping ‘the most vulnerable among us’
- Mar 13, 2021
The American Rescue Plan is “an extraordinarily practical way to help the American people, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said in a statement March 11, the same day President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package into law.

By Catholic News Service
Bishops say fellow Texans’ help for one another amid storm is ‘edifying’
- Feb 22, 2021
The Catholic bishops of Texas said Feb. 20 that the generosity of their fellow Texans reaching out to help their neighbors, even while they are also managing their own needs during a historic winter storm, “is truly edifying.”

By Catholic News Service

Catholic leaders call on Biden to rescue reeling Puerto Rico
- Feb 17, 2021
There’s been enough earthquakes in Puerto Rico over the past year and a half that the sensation has stuck with Archbishop Roberto González Nieves of San Juan. Sometimes, González said, he even thinks the earth is shaking when it’s not.

By John Lavenburg

CCUSA receives $1 million grant to help fire-devastated communities
- Feb 14, 2021
A $1 million grant will allow 10 Catholic Charities agencies in four wildfire-stricken Western states to provide assistance to people burned out of their homes.

By Dennis Sadowski
Eviction moratorium only delaying the inevitable, says Catholic Charities head
- Dec 22, 2020
The president of Catholic Charities USA fears an extended eviction moratorium just delays the inevitable evictions millions of Americans will face amidst a global pandemic and diminished job market.

By John Lavenburg
Catholic Charities USA pledges to seek passage of new pandemic relief bill
- Oct 7, 2020
The president of Catholic Charities USA said the agency would turn to Capitol Hill to get a pandemic relief bill passed after it called President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend talks on the legislation “heartless.”

By Dennis Sadowski
USCCB president urges special collection to aid disaster-stricken dioceses
- Sep 4, 2020
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has asked his fellow bishops to consider having their parishes take up a special collection to aid dioceses and parishes stricken by recent natural disasters.

By Catholic News Service