Charity & Volunteering

Frederick students make lunch, times 2,000
Feb 14 2012
See how students Frederick students celebrate Catholic Schools Week.

Need to serve extends past Christmas season
Jan 03 2012
From Thanksgiving to Christmas and right on through New Year’s Day, people feel an overwhelming need to give of themselves through service.

Natural disasters in 2011 prompt outpouring of charity amid devastation
Dec 31 2011
WASHINGTON – Natural disasters around the world and all across the United States this year prompted prayers, charitable giving and outreach amid unthinkable destruction.

Bishops’ concerns rise over growing infringements on religious liberty
Dec 28 2011
WASHINGTON – Concerns that religious liberty is being eroded by government action and policymaking prompted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to open a campaign in 2011 to head off what they consider dangers to the rights of people of faith and conscience.

Catholic Charities needs help to reach fundraising goal
Dec 08 2011
When Kathleen Kirkpatrick arrived in Baltimore on a snowy day in January, she thought she was starting her life anew only to be faced with an unthinkable letdown.

As we are now – Reflections of an aging religious
Dec 01 2011
The first week in December is designated as a collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious. Religious vocations have declined in the past few decades, and many who have taught or cared for orphans or worked in hospitals can no longer do so. The collection is also a way of giving back to those who served us for so many years. They were of the Martha’s of past generations.

Poverty in the midst of plenty: Hunger persists in the United States
Nov 28 2011
WASHINGTON – As U.S. nutritionists cringe over the prospect of an overweight nation indulging in a two-month binge of “season’s eatings” - from Halloween candy to Thanksgiving dinners to Christmas feasts to New Year’s parties - there are millions of Americans who aren’t sure they’re going to get enough to eat this day or the next.

Penn State crisis shows sex abuse pervasive in US society, many say
Nov 27 2011
LEVITTOWN, Pa. – The child sexual abuse crisis at Penn State University brings into focus the harsh reality that the problem is pervasive in U.S. society, according to experts in the field and church officials.

Papal honorees span the archdiocese
Oct 28 2011
Cross Pro Ecclesia Et Pontifice Carol A. Augustine Augustine served more than 40 years as a religious educator. She was a religion teacher and director of religious education at St. Matthew in Baltimore before beginning a 26-year ministry at the Catholic Center. She held positions of increasing responsibility including: coordinator of Catechist Formation and Leadership Development, coordinator of Religious Education for Catholic Elementary Schools and director of Evangelization and Catechesis. She is a parishioner of St. Matthew Parish. Charles L. Bauermann

Archbishop O’Brien dedicates expanded Seafarers’ Center
Oct 19 2011
DUNDALK – Clergy, volunteers, donors and friends gathered Oct. 15 to celebrate the dedication and ribbon cutting for the newly renovated and expanded Apostleship of the Sea Stella Maris International Seafarers’ Center. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien presided over the prayer service and blessed the center’s new chapel and outdoor monument.

Viviano, brother walk the faith journey together
Oct 14 2011
Mark Viviano jumped into a rental car outside a St. Louis airport May 28 and sped toward the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Jefferson City, 90 minutes away.

Catholic organizations, universities place ad objecting to HHS mandate
Oct 13 2011
WASHINGTON – An unusual coalition of national Catholic organizations and universities took to the pages of two Capitol Hill publications Oct. 11 to protest the Obama administration’s plan to include contraceptives and sterilization among the mandated “preventive services” for women under the new health reform law.

Archbishop Hannan, Baltimore assistant pastor and Kennedy counselor, dies at 98
Sep 29 2011
NEW ORLEANS – Retired Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans, a World War II paratroop chaplain who befriended and secretly counseled John F. Kennedy during and after his historic run for the White House as the first U.S. Catholic president, died Sept. 29 at age 98.

Anne Arundel couple’s outreach spreads ‘H.O.P.E.’
Sep 23 2011
Leo and Diane Zerhusen began H.O.P.E. (He Opens Paths to Everyone) for All, their Christian ministry, after seeing how the unmet needs of children prevent them from growing into the person God calls them to be.

Catholic Charities: A Source of Pride
Sep 15 2011
“We of Catholic Charities are a people of many faces – united by our belief in the infinite worth of every person and a singular commitment to cherish the Divine within us all.”