Your Support Saves Lives Spring is a season of rebirth, of new life, and of hope. During this season, our faith springs us into action to grow. As Catholics and non-Catholics alike, we know that each time we reach out to help another person in need is a moment of transformative growth —...
The line snaked around St. Joseph of the Holy Family Church on 125th Street and Morningside Drive in Harlem the morning of April 6. One man, looking up to the heavens, waved his hands in the air in a prayer gesture of thanksgiving. Others staked out their places, making their...
The anxiety generated by a March 1 termination of Covid emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) relief can be felt from the Bronx to Brewster, where Michelle Molina Rodriguez works as Hudson Valley SNAP supervisor for Catholic Charities Community Services. When Congress authorized an increase in EBT benefits...
A 2021 Census survey revealed that more than half a million families in the New York Metro Area sometimes or often don’t have enough to eat. If you have trouble believing that in the 21st century in the “city that never sleeps” that 1 in 10 families suffer...
