Soup Kitchen

Michigan businessman donates $20M to Catholic site
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Dec 19, 2017
A businessman is donating $20 million to help the Solanus Casey Center which has garnered much interest since Father Solanus Casey was beatified in November. They are attempting to expand their charitable operations.
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Friendship and food served up at Father Solanus’s soup kitchen
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- Nov 19, 2017
Capuchin Father Solanus Casey was beatified yesterday, and he would likely be gratified to see that his first soup kitchen in Detroit has expanded into several locations across the city. Today, the original Capuchin soup kitchen not only serves food, it also provides showers to those who need them, as well as social services. It is connected to a Capuchin-run urban farm, which provides much of the produce for the kitchen.
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Youth feed 2000 homeless people every night in Uruguay
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- Jul 14, 2017
Every night, hundreds of young people belonging to church groups walk the streets of Uruguay’s capital giving food to homeless people. Some coming from universities, parishes, and movements in the archdiocese go out to distribute more than 1900 meals to the city’s homeless residents. One participant said, “We try to be there as much as the people want us to be. Sometimes they need to talk for an hour, and we stay there for an hour. Other times, they grab the warm plate and take off.”
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Some fear parish consolidation could affect soup kitchens
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Jul 5, 2017
The Archdiocese of Hartford has implemented a plan to consolidate 212 parishes into 127 new entities. The community at the parish of St. Anne – which did not survive the process – is questioning what will become of the parish’s flagship ministry, a soup kitchen. Parish staff, volunteers and soup kitchen guests say they have been told the soup kitchen will remain at the church “for the foreseeable future,” but that there are no guarantees as the planning process moves forward at the local level.
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