Represents the Advocacy branch of @CCharitiesUSA working to make poverty reduction a public policy priority.
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Our country needs serious, bipartisan reforms that prioritize the security of the border and the human dignity of those on both sides of it. CCUSA commends efforts to put forth broad immigration reforms and urges compromise to achieve meaningful progress. bit.ly/487e0ht
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.@CCharitiesUSA @iamCARITAS @VaticanIHD @CMSnewyork @ICMC_news @MRSserves Bishop DiMarzio provides insights on migration with this recently published article miamiarch.org/CatholicDioces…
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“Grounded in our Catholic faith, we work together…to protect our common home, with special concern for people in poverty and those exposed to the effects of climate change,” said CCUSA President and CEO Kerry Alys Robinson. Our statement on Laudate Deum: bit.ly/46l0bMu
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A government shutdown hurts those least able to weather it — those relying on their next paycheck, hoping for their next meal, looking for a safe place to sleep. Tell your representatives in Congress: it's time to work together to pass a stop-gap measure. bit.ly/3ZxZSep
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Today we celebrate the liturgical memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul who, moved by love for Christ, dedicated himself to the service of the poor and marginalized. May his example spur us on as well to draw near our brothers and sisters in need.
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.@CCharitiesUSA @iamCARITAS @VaticanIHD @ICMC_news @MRSserves I appreciate this Opinion piece by John Meiser regarding religious liberty, the current border crisis, and the role of religious organizations in caring for those in need thehill.com/opinion/congress…
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CCUSA welcomes @DHSgov's expanded Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela, which helps to ensure that those who faced untenable situations in their home country can remain in the U.S. under protected status and support themselves and their families. bit.ly/453mBQT
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Catholic Charities agencies across the United States provide relief to millions of vulnerable people each year. See how the collaborative effort of thousands of dedicated men and women brings comfort, dignity and hope to our neighbors in need. bit.ly/43LfHyN
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.@CCharitiesUSA @iamCARITAS @ICMC_news @MRSserves @VaticanIHD We have a moral duty to welcome, clothe, feed and respect newcomers, no matter how they got here. And here in the United States, the government can’t punish us for that belief. americamagazine.org/faith/20… via @americamag
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@CCharitiesUSA joins @USCCB and @CatholicRelief in letter to members of Congress, offering moral criteria for ongoing budget debate catholiccharitiesusa.org/adv…
ALT A woman in Chicago carries her groceries home in this 2014 file photo. On March 1, 2023, 32 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories ended a temporary COVID-era increase in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. Eighteen states previously ended the additional SNAP payments that Congress provided to states in March 2020 to help low-income individuals and families deal with the financial hardships of the pandemic. (OSV News photo/Jim Young, Reuters)
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The legislation to defund migrant assistance has been part of an increasing willingness among G.O.P. lawmakers to challenge the outreach Catholic Charities has administered for decades. #title42 #BorderCrisis
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Sister Donna Markham: “The gospel calls us to provide shelter for those who are homeless, feed the hungry, and ‘welcome the stranger. The work of Catholic Charities is humanitarian, not political.” americamagazine.org/politics… via @americamag
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Pope Francis' message for World Day of Migrants is released as House seeks to pass a bill that will restrict vulnerable people’s access to asylum, detain more families including children, and undermine faith-based groups & others, to help localities manage immigration challenges.
📣 #PopeFrancis' message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2023 has been published:"Free to choose whether to migrate or stay". #WDMR2023
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CCUSA opposes a House immigration bill that would severely restrict vulnerable people’s access to asylum, undermine U.S. efforts to effectively manage immigration, and detain more families, including children, among other serious concerns. bit.ly/42dEITq
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Catholic Charities USA’s 2023 Hill Day begins! Catholic Charities’ CEOs from across the country are at the Capitol today meeting their Members of Congress.
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.@GregErlandson, the last director of the full @CatholicNewsSvc, speaking about their work at a gathering hosted by @Georgetown, @KDaniels8 and John Carr. Moving words.
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Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Catholic Charities! We hope you have a happy holiday filled with friends and family. Thanksgiving is Father John Enzler's favorite holiday, and he reminds us of the importance of being grateful and appreciating those around us. #thanksgiving
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CCUSA calls on Congress — as it considers an end-of-year spending agreement for Fiscal Year 2023 — to allocate additional funding for critical initiatives that serve low-income communities and fund essential humanitarian and disaster relief efforts. bit.ly/3EvvSpt
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"...every event and need can become an offering of thanksgiving." Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2638
ALT Marissa Kelly, St. Gabriel's Call assistant in Providence, R.I., right, gives supplies to a new mom in this undated photo. A ministry of the Providence Diocese, St. Gabriel's Call is dedicated to easing a new or expectant mother's worries by providing families with diapers, toiletries, cribs, baby carriers and many other items. (CNS photo/Rick Snizek, Rhode Island Catholic)
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Make every effort to undergird your virtue with faith, your discernment with virtue, and your self-control with discernment; this self-control should lead to perseverance, and perseverance to piety, and piety to care for others, and care for others, to love. 2 Pt 1:5-7
ALT Volunteers with the Ladies of Charity of Calvert County, Md., load turkeys and other provisions into the car of a person in need at a food pantry in North Beach Nov. 20, 2021. The U.N.'s celebration of World Food Day is Oct. 16. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)