Works of Mercy
Here’s what! I am consistently amazed by the generosity of youse guys. You’re the best!
Read MoreFollowing the loss of his infant daughter, Sophia, a mourning father took to Reddit to ask for a single request – a photo without all her medical tubes The response was overwhelming, and many artists volunteered to give this father the beautiful portrait of Sophia he never had the chance to take. People can be…
Read More…are refugees. WASHINGTON – From the head of the U.S. agency in charge of the welfare of more than 50,000 Central American children who have been apprehended at the Mexican border, to the Honduran cardinal who heads the international Catholic relief agency, Caritas, the message was clear, those minors are as much refugees as the people…
Read MoreThis seems like a worthy cause to me: I hope this message finds you well! My name is Ramon (Ray) Morris and I am reaching out to you because of Brandon Vogt’s recommendation. Him and I are both good friends with Br. Jason Zink, a Brother in the Brotherhood of Hope. In late July, I…
Read More…for those desperate kids at our door.
Read MoreA Catholic who is sane looks at this and is glad that the Administration is doing the smart thing and calling in the largest charitable organization on planet earth to do one of the things it does best: offer works of mercy to desperate people. A Catholic driven mad by ideology forgets that the focus…
Read More…while we still can. This is especially on us–us Catholics who supported the war that destroyed their country and has resulted in what the Iraqi bishops are describing as a “doomsday scenario” for the Chaldean Church. We can support Aid to the Church in Need here.
Read MoreKudos to Glenn Beck. May his tribe increase. The issue of children pouring across our border is not about political advantage. This is about raw human need. Here’s a place to help.
Read MoreI am at the USCCB’s National Migration Conference this week. Today I heard several stories about these children. In Honduras, which would be declared a failed state at this point if it wasn’t in the Western Hemisphere, a gang came to a woman’s house to tell her her two young daughters had been selected to be…
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