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Healthy Eating on a Budget? Catholic Charities and Credit Suisse Show How
TweetIt can be difficult to adopt a healthy lifestyle on a budget, particularly when it comes to food. At Catholic Charities’ Washington Heights Food Pantry, visitors learned to do just that. Fourteen...
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Hurricane Sandy Volunteer Roundup
TweetDuring this busy and blessed holiday season we want to express our gratitude for taking time out to help Hurricane Sandy survivors. A big thank you to all who signed up with Catholic Charities to...
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People Say Hurricane Sandy Is Over. It’s Nowhere Near Over.
TweetThirty-foot-high waves crashed through Evelyn’s street “so high, so fast that if we’d stayed another minute we would have been trapped inside,” she said, still breathing fast four months later as...
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Try Out Your Talents; Find the Perfect Volunteer Opportunity Tailored Just...
Tweet Looking for a way to give back and enjoy the spring weather? Join the Catholic Charities’ Junior Board for a day of service cleaning up a park in the Bronx. Can you bring a story to life with...
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CYO: Bball, Service and So Much More
By Alice Kenny Catholic Charities’ Monge Codio — known best, perhaps, for Catholic Charities-sponsored pilgrimages he made to Haiti to help those hurt by the 2010 earthquake disaster and the American...
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Heroes Honored at the 77th Annual CYO Club of Champions Tribute; Crucial...
CYO Honorees (L-R) Haeda Mihaltses, Rod Gilbert, Cardinal Dolan and Tim Brosnan Fox 5′s”Good Day New York co-anchor Greg Kelly emceed as representatives from Major League Baseball, the New York Rangers...
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Going door to door, tent to shed, to serve those still suffering from...
By Alice Kenny Although nine months have passed since Hurricane Sandy pushed ocean waves down the streets of Staten Island’s Midland Beach, upending cars, flooding homes and destroying nearly...
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From the Philippines to New York, Help Is Here
By Alice Kenny From typhoons to hurricanes and pestilence to plagues, the Catholic Church maintains its centuries-established commitment of providing food, shelter and support for those suffering....
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Bullied Boy Begins to Thrive
By Alice Kenny Bullied for much of his childhood and bounced between eight inner-city schools Edwyn Colon, 11, was treated for anxiety and panic attacks. The young boy shares a one-bedroom apartment...
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Catholic New York Editorial: More Feeling Hunger’s Effects
Msgr. Sullivan at St. Jerome’s food pantry The numbers are shocking, writes Catholic New York in this recent editorial: In just five years, the number of New York City residents who depend on food...
View ArticleMissed Out on the Boston Marathon? Run with Us in the Big Leagues; Team...
#485910923 / gettyimages.com By Alice Kenny Inspired by yesterday’s great news about Meb Keflezighi becoming the first American to win the Boston Marathon since 1983? Wish that winner had been you?...
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Blizzard May Trap Elderly
By Alice Kenny CAUTION: Snow’s already falling sideways before Winter Storm Juno — scheduled to slam New York City by 1 pm and predicted the worst blizzard in the city’s history — has even started:...
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