News - April 30, 2019 - Catholic Charities USA joins the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services, and Catholic Rural Life in urging for sufficient funds in the FY2020 Agriculture appropriations for hunger programs including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Read the full letters.

News - July 25, 2022 - Dear Representative: We write on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Department of Migration and Refugee Services (USCCB/MRS), Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Relief Services, and Catholic Health Association to express our support for H.R. 6552, the “Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022.” This bipartisan legislation is critical for…

News - April 8, 2016 - CCUSA urged both the House and Senate leadership of their respective Appropriations Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, and Science to support the funding in fiscal year 2017 of the Youth Mentoring Grant program and the Second Chance Act program. Read the full letters.

News - November 1, 2019 - Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) issued a statement in response to the announcement today of the proposed HHS rule on religious freedom and nondiscrimination in grant processes. Read the full statement.

Story - April 14, 2020 - Yesterday, Catholic Charities food pantry staff, as well as employees from its Workforce and Education and Immigration and Refugee Assistance Program, pitched in to pick up and sort eggs, pastries, vegetables, fruit and more for distribution to the agency’s nine food pantries in three counties (Erie, Cattaraugus and Allegany). More than 500 dozen eggs and…

Prayer & Reflection - December 28, 2023 - Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt and stay there until I tell you.Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him. As we reflect on today’s reading from Matthew, we see Jesus incarnate in the families fleeing for their lives and arriving at our southern border. We see Jesus…

News - January 17, 2018 - Catholic Charities USA and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter to both houses of Congress urging members to pass a budget agreement that draws a “circle of protection” around the many programs that serve poor people at home, reauthorizes critical health programs such as the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Maternal,…

News - March 18, 2021 - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed a rule that would inhibit a state governor’s ability to declare a disaster by adjusting the procedures for doing so. If implemented, this would hinder states and NGOs such as Catholic Charities to receive Public Assistance (PA) funds for clean up efforts. Our comments focus on how this…

News - March 28, 2019 - The Circle of Protection, a coalition of 60 leaders who head Christian denominations and organization, urges Congress  to immediately pass a disaster assistance package with $600 million for Puerto Rico’s Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP). Absent action, 1.35 million people in Puerto Rico, a third of its population, will see deep cuts to their current nutrition…

News - April 5, 2016 - For fifty years the Older Americans Act (OAA) has provided critical services for vulnerable senior citizens. The Act expired four years ago, but in the meantime the needs of seniors and their population have only increased. According to US Census Bureau data from 2014, over 4 million seniors live below the poverty line and 11…

News - October 20, 2020 - Catholic Charities USA joins other organizations in urging the Senate Armed Services Committee to provide needed assistance to struggling military families by prioritizing the Military Family Basic Needs Allowance in the Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Read the full letter.

News - March 25, 2019 - Catholic Charities USA and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ask Senate leadership to provide critical supplemental relief for people recovering from disasters over the past year. Read the full letter.