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Catholic Charities / Social Justice

Stories ranked by year, and within each year from oldest to newest. (Click here for the column "Faith, Hope and Charity" by David Siler)

2010

• Cathedral High School donations help refugees
• Volunteer medical team treats injured people in Haiti
• Earthquake survivor vows to continue raising funds for Haitian people
• The warmth of God's arms: Youth director embraces shelter’s goal of changing heartbreak to hope for homeless children and parents
  • Volunteers needed to fill many roles at new Holy Family Shelter
• Simple philosophy marks lives of Spirit of Service winners
  • Tables are available for Spirit of Service Awards dinner on April 28
• Spirit of Service winners committed to helping others
• Unusual focus enhances summer experience for homeless children
• 'Let go and let God': Leap of faith lets volunteer lend a ‘helping hand’ to Hispanic families
• Giving hope and houses: Classmates see Hearts and Hands ministry as another way to live out their faith

2009

• Father Donald Schmidlin was a pastor, Catholic Charities director
• PSSM opens apartments for low-income seniors
• Good Samaritans: Story of a lonely child sparks efforts to help people in need
• Defining choices mark lives of Spirit of Service winners
  • Tables are available for Spirit of Service Awards dinner on April 22
• ‘Journey to erase poverty’: Terre Haute children take steps to help the poor
• JustFaith program empowers love of God and neighbor
• Spirit of Service winners know ‘how to live the good life’
• A good team: Directors of Crisis Office retire after 15 years of service
• Wanted: Photographs that demonstrate how your social ministries ‘SHINE’
• Continued blessings, unexpected gifts: One year later, Julie Molloy and volunteers work to continue the legacy of Anna Molloy and Lucious Newsom
• Lula Baxter, program director for Catholic Charities, served the elderly for 20 years
• Ecumenical prison ministry shares Christ’s love and forgiveness
• Garden for the poor at St. Matthew Parish provides harvest of food, love and friendship
• One keystroke at a time: Catholic Charities Tell City and library collaborate to help unemployed
• ‘Angels of Grace’ to honor women for community service
• New director of Crisis Office is eager to reach out to others
• Summer youth volunteer effort helps Brown County flood victims
• A worthwhile cause: New furnishings needed to complete updating at St. Philip Neri School
• Answering God’s call: Recent college graduates serv low-income individuals
• Building bridges and friendships: Priest and parishes use novel approaches to support neighborhoods and families
• ¡Que viva New Albany Deanery!: Southern Indiana deanery celebrates 10 years of Hispanic Ministry
• Letting our faith ‘SHINE’
  • Loving, serving the least among us is at heart of our faith
  • Workshop offers insight for responding to requests for assistance at parishes
  • Letting our faith ‘SHINE’: Give people ‘the look of love which they crave,’ keynote speaker says
  • Head of Catholic Charities USA gives parishes advice for fighting poverty
  • Youth and young adult leaders encourage connection of Eucharist and works of social ministry
  • Faith calls us to the ministry of charity, Archbishop Buechlein says at closing Mass for kickoff event
  • Rural parishes challenged to reach out to larger community through actions
  • Speakers say shared faith can transcend cultural differences
  • Founder of JustFaith Ministries says parishes must be committed to the poor and vulnerable
  • Educators must nurture ‘humanitarian spark’ in their students
  • Photo gallery from the conference and Mass
• Society’s members see the face of Christ in the poor
• ‘Hope for a new life’: New Holy Family Shelter’s mission still helps homeless families seeking to rebuild their lives
  • Twenty-five years later, Holy Family Shelter finds a new home
  • Photo gallery

2008

• ‘A real sense of what would Jesus do’: Faith-filled health care group marks 20 years of helping the poor and the homeless
  • A welcoming place: Clinic helps Spanish immigrants at parish
• Cathedral Kitchen receives gift to establish endowment
• Lessons of sharing mark lives of Spirit of Service winners

• Christ our Hope: Apostolic Journey to the United States 2008

  • Educators, charities official reflect on papal experiences in Washington
• New agency director is embracing Church’s mission of helping others
• Spirit of Service winners committed to helping others
• ‘Share Your Harvest’ program benefits needy people in area
• Area flood victims find shelter in parishes
• Parishes, agencies help flood victims across the archdiocese
  • How you can help flood victims
• Be Our Guest: Community’s generosity helps St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry through critical June shortage
• ‘Lord, I come to do your will’: Teacher’s efforts connect Indianapolis parish and mountain community in El Salvador
• Elizabella Ball to recognize families who have embraced adoption
• A call to love: Wisdom and faith mark Providence Sister Susan Dinnin’s journey in leading A Caring Place
• Flood relief funds are available for archdiocesan parishes
• 'A place of hope': Father Terry Charlton embraces role at world’s first high school for AIDS orphans
• Lucious Newsom, ‘the Lord’s beggar for the poor,’ dies at 93
• Recipe for success: Second Helpings feeds the hungry in Indianapolis | Photo gallery
• Garden of eating: Immaculate Heart of Mary ministry provides food for the needy
• A message of hope: Homeless receive shoes and socks through Eagle Scout project
• Annual Catholic Campaign for Human Development collection is Nov. 22-23
• 'Labor of Love': Teenage and young adult outreach at St. Charles Borromeo Parish builds community
• St. Thomas Aquinas Parish is part of Bread for the World video

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Faith, Hope and Charity: Columns by David Siler

2010

• Helping those on ‘shaky ground’
• Make the choice to redistribute your wealth
• Like Jesus, let’s be people of love and compassion
• ‘Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do’
• The greatest poverty and the richest treasure
• Catholic Church is alive and well

2009

• Hope in God is hope that endures
• ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry?’
• It’s time for a ‘Spiritual Stimulus Package’
• Show mercy of Jesus to the least of his people
• Faith fills Cubans with hope
• Pro-life ministry in action
• It’s almost time to SHINE!
• Support local farmers and honor the God of creation
• Make me a channel of your peace
• Thank you ‘nice Catholics’
• Jesus was the ultimate community organizer

2008

• ‘Providing help, creating hope’
• Law of love is greatest
• SHINE is a new social ministry renewal initiative
• Holy Father’s visit gives renewed sense of hope for all
• The poverty of loneliness
• Let’s stay in it for the long haul
• What a truly wonderful world we live in
• Could that be Jesus?
• A bottomless well of love
• A flood of hope is needed
• Time to move back to the front porch

2007

• Agency review brings changes to Catholic Charities
• Poverty is an unnatural disaster
• Service as evangelization
• Share the pride
• Adoption: A choice we can all live with
• Addressing homelessness in Indiana
• Loving concern offers hope in tough times of heartbreak
• Gone fishin’: Proverb teaches love, compassion
• A face for Jesus
• When I was a stranger, you welcomed me
• Timeless gifts worth sharing

2006

• Catholic social teaching: The Church’s rich treasure
• We are all created in the image and likeness of God
• Family: The foundation of our society
• A place at the Lord’s table
• Church teaches preferential option for the poor and vulnerable
• Work hard to make work holy
• We are one human family
• Care for God’s creation
• The season of sharing

 

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