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Shower and laundry facilities open at Catholic Charities

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago is taking a cue from Pope Francis. The agency dedicated new shower and laundry facilities for its clients June 18 as part of a prayer service rededicating its headquarters at the St. Vincent Center, 721 N. LaSalle St., as part of the wrap-up of Catholic Charities’ 100th anniversary year. The center also dedicated a new kitchen. Pope Francis opened shower facilities in St. Peter’s Square in 2015 and a launderette for homeless people in Rome in 2017.

Thank you to parishes

This month I would like to take the opportunity to say a great big “thank you” to all the parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago for all you do for Catholic Charities, and to celebrate all we do together to serve the poor and vulnerable in our community.

‘March for Meals’

Each year in March, we celebrate “March for Meals” to honor the Meals on Wheels program and the seniors it serves. “March for Meals” gives us a great opportunity to explain just how vital this program is in the community, often being the critical difference between enabling seniors to age in place at home and having to move to a nursing facility for temporary or long-term care.

Help for the homeless

In the cold winter months, our thoughts often turn to the homeless. A local school group recently asked me what they could collect to help the homeless. My response was warm wool socks, waterproof gloves, hats, scarves and coats and boots designed to withstand extremely cold temperatures.

Doing ‘great things’

St. Teresa of Kolkata reminded us that “I can do things you cannot. You can do things I cannot. But together we can do great things.”

Need for affordable housing

At Catholic Charities’ 101st annual meeting of our board of advisers in October, we released a position paper titled “Building Hope: The Need for Affordable Housing.”

The next 100 years

Earlier this month, Catholic Charities officially closed out our year-long centennial celebration at the 101st annual meeting of our board of advisors. This past anniversary year has been an exciting one, giving us an opportunity to look back at our rich history, and enabling us to recommit ourselves to the next century of service to those in need.

Catholic Charities opens Tolton Peace Center in Austin

Catholic Charities recently opened a center in the city’s Austin neighborhood to be a hub for social services and violence prevention efforts along with offering families and individuals trauma therapy.

Program aims to help veterans affected by suicide

Eileen Hurn knows all too well how veterans are affected by suicide. Hurn’s husband, Brian, died by suicide in October 2013. He was a veteran, a Navy corpsman in the peacetime Navy of the late 1970s, working as a paramedic when he died. In a column she wrote for the Obelisk, the newsletter of the Loving Outreach of Survivors of Suicide, she said he was one of 22 veterans to die from suicide that day.

A second Century of Hope

You may be surprised to know that April is designated as the National Month of Hope. Just as the rebirth of spring and the promise of Easter brighten our days and lift our spirits, the National Month of Hope was founded to inspire people to spread hope to others through volunteer efforts, charitable giving and acts of kindness.
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