Time sure does fly by! Congress returned from recess and hit the ground running with a number of big pieces of legislation, most notably the Farm Bill and Immigration Reform. Our staff members are busy keeping up with the latest movements on Capitol Hill to ensure to that our brothers and sisters who are poor [...]
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Over the next few weeks Congress will continue to tackle two very important issues, immigration reform and the farm bill. The decisions legislators will make during this month as much of the legislation moves through the committee review process will have a great impact on the final versions of the legislation later this summer. Our [...]
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Some time ago, we asked you to sign a petition to support the Cremisan Valley community in the Holy Land and to oppose the route of the separation wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories. The Cremisan Valley, an agricultural area near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, is best known for [...]
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This week, Washington, D.C. was abuzz with the release of President Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2014. While our staff continues to analyze the President’s proposal, we appreciate the administration’s overall commitment to diplomacy, humanitarian response and international development. Continued support for programs that save lives such as health and peacekeeping interventions are critical, and [...]
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Happy Easter to you and your loved ones! We are inspired by the Holy Father’s homily on Easter Sunday calling for peace throughout our troubled world. “Let us be renewed by God’s mercy, let us be loved by Jesus, let us enable the power of his love to transform our lives too; and let us [...]
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In his inaugural homily Pope Francis committed himself to “embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important, those whom Matthew lists in the final judgment on love: the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and those in prison (cf. Mt 25:31-46).” We can do [...]
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Sean Callahan, our chief operation officer here at CRS, recently arrived in Rome for the meeting of the executive board of Caritas Internationalis. While the meeting has long been scheduled, it coincided, it turned out, with another less expected event, the installation mass for Pope Francis. Sean was fortunate to attend as part of the [...]
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In the wake of Congress and the White House failing to prevent across-the-board cuts to government-funded programs, also known as ‘sequestration,’ most of us are going on and living our daily lives without feeling their impact. However, millions of our brothers and sisters here in the United States and overseas will eventually begin to feel [...]
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It’s the first week of March and with it comes what we’ve been working so hard to avoid for many months: automatic across-the-board spending cuts, also known as sequestration. Your efforts over the past few months and this week have been valiant, but unfortunately, our legislators weren’t able to come to an agreement on how [...]
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We’re back from the 2013 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, DC and it was a huge success! Hundreds of Church social ministry leaders came together to connect, find out more about key domestic and global poverty issues, pray together to renew our spirit and vision for mission, and advocate for policies that protect our [...]
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