Catholic Charities Responds to Daunting Need for Housing

Catholic Charities Progress of Peoples Development Corporation (CCPOP), the housing developer of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens, announced that the application process for the newly constructed Our Lady of Loreto Family Apartments is now closed. In May, 2012, after much anticipation by families in need of low-income-housing in Brownsville, Catholic Charities opened the application […]

Diocesan Agencies Win Fidelis Care Grants

Fidelis Care, the New York state Catholic Health Plan, has announced the distribution of $113,290 from its Community Grant Fund to benefit Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens $115,730 to support Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services, and $190,980 to benefit the Catholic Migration Office of the Diocese of Brooklyn. For the eighth consecutive year, Fidelis Care […]

Catholic Charities Humanitarian Dinner

The Catholic Charities 2012 Bishop’s Humanitarian Award Dinner Honored Youssoufou Bamba, Ambassador of Côte d’Ivoire to the United Nations, and Michael Perrette, Vice President of Corporate Facilities and Services at Prudential.  The event was held at Pier Sixty, Manhattan,  on May 22.  Pictured, from left,are: Ken Rosato, Anchor, Eyewitness News, WABC-TV; John J. Farrell, retired […]

Bereavement Conference

Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens (CCBQ), Catholic Cemeteries of the Diocese of Brooklyn, and the Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St. John’s University joined together Nov. 12 to sponsor “Journey to Healing: Grief, Compassion and Hope,” a bereavement conference for those who have suffered a loss as well as those who support the […]