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May 18, 2017, 1:36 PM
By Claire Hoffmeyer, Director of Youth Ministry at Saint John Vianney Catholic Parish in Brookfield, Wisconsin
Nine years of youth ministry boils down to one simple, humbling truth: teenagers teach and transform me. I consistently seek to alter…
May 9, 2017, 4:57 PM
I read a prayer recently, titled “Prayer for Conscience and Courage” by Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister. I was struck by the title and even more by the prayer. What does it mean to pray for “conscience”? Isn’t a…
Apr 25, 2017, 3:36 PM
Some of the most intriguing and successful CCHD-funded groups are those that surmount the biggest obstacles. The Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation (CDC) in Porcupine, South Dakota, is one of them. The group works on the remote Pine…
Apr 18, 2017, 12:00 PM
When the risen Jesus encounters his disciples on the road to Emmaus, it’s quite clear that their journeying away from Jerusalem is in fact a journeying away from hope. They have witnessed their friend, their hoped-for savior die; they have seen…
Apr 11, 2017, 1:42 PM
In February, nine Latino, African-American, and Caucasian leaders from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati flew to Modesto, California, for the U.S. World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM). Organized by the Vatican, the Catholic Campaign for Human…
Apr 4, 2017, 12:00 PM
Tena is one of many children severely affected by the worst drought in 50 years, prolonged by El Nino. Photo by Petterik Wiggers for Catholic Relief Services.
When we think of those goods the poor are stripped of daily, there are probably…
Mar 30, 2017, 12:00 PM
Cesar Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union in 1962, is pictured in an undated photo. Chavez, who died in 1993, began grass-roots organizing in the 1950s while working in the fruit and vegetable fields of California and defined…
Mar 28, 2017, 12:00 PM
As Catholics, we go to God together. We’re all in this together. God’s family extends beyond time and space, and we’re called as individuals to participate in that family, both in the daily realities in which we find ourselves and…
Mar 23, 2017, 12:00 PM
In Washington, DC, Catholic high school students learn practical skills to become nonviolent peacemakers. In Portland, the Archdiocese trains clergy to seek economic justice for workers. Near Miami, a Catholic university supports economic development…
Mar 22, 2017, 12:00 PM
The Catholic Relief Services Collection will be taken in many parishes across the country on the weekend of March 25-26 to support humanitarian and pastoral ministries to the vulnerable around the world. The work of The USCCB Office of Pastoral Care…
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