Puerto Rico: Still recovering from Maria, Catholics assess Fiona’s blow to church buildings
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, reports that just as Catholic organisations were making progress on repairing a few dozen of the 1,000 Catholic buildings damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017, Hurricane Fiona swept in…
In the US, Uvalde shooting survivors receive scholarships to attend local Catholic school
United StatesRNS Catholic Extension, a grant-giving non-profit that finances impoverished parishes, announced it has endowed 30 full scholarships for students wounded in the Robb Elementary School mass shooting. These funds will allow students to attend Sacred Heart Catholic School for multiple years, according to a statement from the Chicago-based organisation. The announcement last Monday comes […]
Through an app, a group of Latin American nuns in the US tracks mental illness across the US
RNS It took some getting used to, but sister Maria Minerva Morales is now a faithful user of a cell phone app where she documents her interactions with people she ministers to. Through the app, Morales – who is part of the Catholic congregation Missionaries of Charity of Mary Immaculate – documents the name, gender […]