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CCUSA honors outgoing President and CEO Father Larry Snyder with Vision Award
News - October 7, 2014 - Alexandria, Virginia (October 7, 2014) – Honoring a decade of dedicated vision and a legacy of servant leadership, Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) honored Rev. Larry Snyder, the organization’s outgoing president, with a CCUSA Vision Award at its 2014 Annual Gathering, currently taking place in Charlotte, N.C. Father Snyder, a priest of the Archdiocese of St.…
Interfaith Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence urges Congress to support Victims of Crime Act grants
News - January 29, 2024 - Dear Member of Congress, We, the undersigned sixty-two faith-based organizations, come together to express our strong support for bridge funding to bolster Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grants. Our faith traditions teach us the importance of standing with those who are vulnerable, offering solace to the afflicted and working towards the restoration of individuals and…
Want to help someone else this Christmas? Try these giving ideas
Story - December 14, 2020 - The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, forest fires, hurricanes, wars and other events this year have hit the world’s economies hard, leaving many unemployed and unable to pay for rent and even food. As Catholic organizations try to address this overwhelming need, their own resources strained, some people have indicated they would like to help those in…
Hospital to Housing Program transforms lives
Story - October 14, 2020 - “St. Patrick Center and the Hospital to Housing program saved my life. They were my guardian angels.” A Hospital to Housing client The cost of homelessness is high and its impact is far-reaching. Studies have shown that one person who is chronically homeless, moving from hospitals and emergency rooms to jails and courts, can accumulate…
Indiana volunteers learn homeless at shelter ‘are not a stereotype’
Story - April 28, 2020 - When Katelyn Stumler’s husband, Craig, needed someone to cover his volunteer shift at a New Albany homeless shelter for two hours on a cold night in February, “begrudgingly, I said I’d do it,” she admitted. But she found serving the service transformative. “It was an incredible experience. … That was the spark that lit the…