Mary’s Meals serves meals to 2,429,182 children every school day across 17 countries.
Feeding 2.4 million schoolchildren every day with Our Lady as his ‘boss’
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Pope: Schools should be centers of formation, not ‘achievement factories’
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Culture and education must go hand-in-hand to form students into agents of social change driven by hope, Pope Francis said.
Pope calls on G20 to work for food equality, end armed conflicts
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The “silent acceptance” of famine in the world is a “scandalous injustice and a grave offense” that requires the unified attention of the international system, Pope Francis said.
Poor cannot keep waiting for justice, solidarity, pope says
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A Christian faith that does not disturb the powers that be and cannot generate a serious commitment to charity becomes an innocuous devotion, Pope Francis said.
Ahead of World Day of the Poor, cause opens for France’s ‘charitable spouses’
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Ahead of World Day of the Poor, observed in the church Nov. 17, French bishops gave a green light to open the sainthood cause for a married couple who gave up their noble and rich life to care for the sick and poor.
Pope asks parishes, religious orders to help alleviate housing crisis
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Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis is asking parishes, Catholic institutions and religious congregations in Rome to celebrate the Holy Year 2025 by offering a home to someone who is without.
Reformed CCHD collection boosts groups putting Catholic social teaching into action
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The Catholic Campaign for Human Development annual collection envelope — for those church parishioners who don’t use the electronic alternative, #iGiveCatholicTogether — announces that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ domestic anti-poverty program is “working on the margins.”
Mary Pat Clarke, former City Council member, remembered as fighter for social justice
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Catholic Review
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Mary Pat Clarke, a former Baltimore City Council member who made history when she became the first woman elected council president in 1987, is being remembered by social justice advocates as a staunch promoter of inclusionary housing, racial justice and policies that support worker rights.
God’s love also comes through people being kind to each other, Pope says
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — There is no such thing as people who only take and never give, Pope Francis told a group of visitors experiencing homelessness and volunteers who assist them. “We are all givers and receivers, we all need each other and are called to enrich each other,” he said during a private audience […]
Pope asks church organizers to bridge inequality, foster solidarity
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Christians must actively seek ways to bridge the gap between rich and poor created by growing inequality and foster pathways of solidarity, Pope Francis said.
CCHD collection vital for local anti-poverty organizations
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Catholic Review
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The Baltimore CCHD committee chairperson said the Nov. 16-17 collection in parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore is a vital funding source for the local Catholic Campaign for Human Development chapter.
See Christ in the poor, reach out to help, pope tells Diocese of Rome
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Catholics in the Diocese of Rome must come up with concrete projects to help the tens of thousands of poor people who live in the city and must ensure religious education classes teach the social doctrine of the church, Pope Francis said.
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