Volunteers Archives

‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Lay missionaries find purpose during work abroad

Church

April 21, 2016

Before Connor Bergeron of Reston, Virginia, left to serve as a lay missionary in Bolivia, he wasn’t sure how the experience would impact his life, other than soaking in the excitement and intrigue of living abroad. After graduating from college, Bergeron was looking for an experience that would help him