When you’re mentally ill, no one brings you a casserole
Chances are that every Sunday you are sitting next to someone who has a family member or someone close to them with a mental illness. These Catholic ministries work to remove the stigma of mental illness. Read the full story.
Advocates dismayed by reaffirming ban on women priests
Advocates for the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church said they are “deeply dismayed” by a newspaper article penned by the Vatican’s doctrinal chief that reaffirmed the church’s ban on women priests as “definitive” and “a truth belonging to the deposit of faith.” Read the full story.
Catholic advocates in full-court press on tax reform plan
As Republicans in Congress scramble to reconcile the House and Senate versions of their tax reform plan — and try to correct mistakes in the bill before it becomes law — Catholic advocates are marshaling their forces to influence the legislation and fix the most egregious errors. Read the full story.
Saving food ‘not pretty enough to sell’
Kansas City , Missouri — Late summer and fall is a busy time for Lisa Ousley and Bernard Schneider. They have green beans, potatoes, tomatoes, melons, cucumbers and zucchinis to rescue. Tons of them. Ousley and Schneider aren’t farmers. They’re gleaners. Read the full story.
Good to the last drop: reconciliation in a cup
Paksae and Paksong, Laos — Jhai Coffee, roasted and sold in the United States, but grown here on the Boleven Plateau, is rebuilding American and Laotian lives destroyed by bombs, turning enemies into friends and — as Thorn describes it — bringing reconciliation where once there was war. Read the full story.
Monitoring team oversees food aid to ravaged North Korea
Bangkok, Thailand, March 19, 1999 — Representatives for Catholic Relief Services are part of an eight-member team now in North Korea to monitor a United Nations food assistance program. The monitoring team arrived in the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea Feb. 20 to oversee the distribution of 75,000 metric tons of U.S.-donated wheat through the U.N.’s World Food Program. Read the full story.
Aid workers urge world to help North Korea
Bangkok, Thailand, April 23, 1999 — Catholic relief workers are involved in relentless efforts to convince the world to send food relief to the country’s starving population. “The reality is pretty grim,” said Kathi Zellweger. She made her 22nd trip to North Korea in March and spoke to NCR a couple days after her return. “Hunger is the everyday reality of North Koreans.” Read the full story.
Dennis Coday 