Officials overseeing Catholic Charities-connected housing initiatives are calling on Congress to boost funding and expand tax credits for affordable housing programs that serve older adults and homeless people.
Catholic Charities leaders urge wider federal support for affordable housing
Benedict XVI Institute in San Francisco launches ‘Year for the Homeless’
The Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship in the San Francisco Archdiocese Feb. 4 launched a “Year for the Homeless,” which includes calling people to prayer, commissioning a special requiem Mass and holding a series of fundraisers via Zoom to help the homeless.
Caritas official: After refugee camp fire, Lesbos locals patrol streets
Lesbos island remains tense after a fire at a refugee camp left at least 12,000 homeless.
UV lights, ozone cleaners, sanitizers help shelter keep homeless safe
Regular screening of residents and movement in and out of shelter are some of the tools put into practice to protect residence of homeless shelter from coronavirus.
Father Kenneth Doyle: When incense is bothersome/ Giving beggars money
The use of incense during Mass and using kindness when giving money to the poor.
Parish throws Super Bowl party for homeless displaced by game security
St. Olaf Church, in downtown Minneapolis, hosted many homeless guests Feb. 1-4, Super Bowl weekend, who were displaced by game security.
Gomez: Amid climate worries are ‘human ecology’ issues, like homelessness
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles stated President Donald Trump’s June 1 action on the Paris accord “provoked deep concern everywhere about the future of the earth we live on with global warming and climate change.
Faith inspires artist to feature homeless in portraits of compassion
Mary Larson, a the clinic’s assistant nurse manager and painter, has become known in the Seattle area and beyond for creating vivid portraits of subjects that have been touched by homelessness.