Volunteers Archives

Church offers counseling to help students cope with trauma of London fire

Catholic News Service, Global Church
June 19, 2017

John Paul Morrison, the director of education for the Archdiocese of Westminster, said he was “very proud” of the response to the tragedy of the Catholic Church “at every level.” Speaking about the response, he said, “It was good to see all elements of the church’s mission come together to address what is an incredibly said but also an incredibly complex situation.”

‘God Pods’ offer Yakima inmates another path

Associated Press, Church in the US
April 30, 2017

A faith-based unit in Yakima County jail in Washington state has proven itself to be a popular program though there are no statistics on how effective it is. Many of the participants believe that it has been effective for them in finding a new and better way to live life when they are released from jail.

In notorious Santiago community, church works to give people options

Catholic News Service, Global Church
March 20, 2017

“Sometimes when the gunfights are going on, I have gone out with a megaphone and told them to stop. I say: ‘Respect life, stop! In the name of the children, the women and Jesus Christ, I ask you to stop shooting,’ and they do,” Father Gerardo Ouisse said describing a scene in his rough neighborhood.

Catholic nursery volunteer charged with sex abuse

Associated Press, Church in the US
December 10, 2016

Twenty-six-year-old Terrence Smalls was charged with sex abuse of a minor and other offenses Thursday after charges that he abused a four-year-old girl while volunteering in a nursery in a Catholic parish in the Baltimore area.

Pope: Christians can’t ignore suffering and have a clear conscience

Catholic News Service
September 4, 2016

Pope Francis yesterday marked the Jubilee of Volunteer Workers, the latest event in the Holy Year of Mercy. During his catechesis to the volunteers, the Pope stressed how, faced with suffering, Christians cannot pass by on the other side.

Scenes from World Youth Day in Krakow

Global Church, World Youth Day Krakow
July 22, 2016

Walking around the streets of Krakow ahead of World Youth Day, the largest regular Catholic gathering in the world, one can find hundreds of reminders that the whole Catholic world is focused here, and here are several slices of life from the run-up to the event.