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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
Get first-hand insight into these dramatic threats on JustLove.
Listen as Catholic Charities Executive Director and Radio Host Msgr. Kevin Sullivan interviews Hannah Song, President and CEO of Liberty in North Korea, a grassroots organization that rescues and helps North Korean refugees reach freedom while working to end the crises.
North Korea, Ms. Song tells Msgr. Sullivan, “is the most reclusive, oppressive nation in the world…people don’t know what a cell phone or the Internet is.”
Tune in now to hear the interview JustLove on The Catholic Channel 129, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio.
“The reality,” Ms. Song says, “is we can’t predict what’s going to happen in North Korea nor can any other expert or academic.”
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
As the Senate “Gang of 8″ completes its work on a Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill (CIR) and Congress prepares to debate its provisions, key leaders of New York’s diverse faith communities joined with elected officials at a press conference held at the Community Church of New York, 40 East 35th Street in Manhattan, on April 5. One leader after another spoke to promote just and humane comprehensive immigration reform, urging Congress to use moral values as a guidepost.
Speakers included Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, Executive Director of Catholic Charities of New York; Pastor Gilford Monrose, Vice President of CUSH; Imam Talib Abdur Rashid, Mosque of the Islamic Brotherhood; Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Greater NY Labor-Religion Coalition; Congresswoman Yvette Clarke; Congressman Joseph Crowley; Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez; Chung-Wha Hong of the New York Immigration Coalition; along with several young New York City immigrants.
David Lopez, 19, an undocumented resident of Staten Island and victim of Superstorm Sandy, spoke about challenges he faces since the hurricane destroyed the apartment where he lived and the business where he worked. Now homeless, he is ineligible for FEMA assistance because of his immigration status.
“I started working from the bottom up,” David said. “I want to become something to be able to help this country but I am unable to because of my status.”
When Msgr. Sullivan came to the podium he thanked Mr. Lopez for sharing his story.
“Catholic Charities is both proud and privileged to be part of these new New Yorkers that contribute to the growth and well-being of this country, the one they call home,” Msgr. Sullivan said. “We welcome comprehensive reform that provides a path out of the shadows, strengthens and reunites families and provides for fair and humane legal immigration opportunities.”
Immigrants and advocates will make this case in Washington D.C. on April 10th at a massive mobilization and faith community vigil for citizenship. More than 2000 New Yorkers are expected to participate.
“It is both overdue and heartening that the critical issue of immigration reform is moving to the top of Washington’s agenda,” Monsignor Sullivan said. “Immigrants have not only helped build this nation, but so many of our vibrant institutions, including our parishes.”
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Monday, April 1st, 2013
By Alice Kenny
His Excellency Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan will make his first New York Archdiocesan tour since returning to New York after helping to elect Pope Francis.
Cardinal Dolan has scheduled three events on Thursday, April 4, 2013 that celebrate the work of Catholic Charities Community Services of Orange County. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York Executive Director Monsignor Kevin Sullivan will join him.
At 3 p.m. on April 4, Cardinal Dolan will bless tour and cut the ribbon at Catholic Charities’ new locations at 305 North Street in Middletown, NY. This location consolidates several programs into a single location: housing an OASAS licensed Substance Abuse Clinic, Case Management staff, Immigration Services, and our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). The Substance Abuse Clinic provides assessments and individual and group counseling to individuals and families to help ensure a lasting recovery from substance abuse. Case Management and Immigration provide a variety of bi-lingual services to individuals in need. The EAP works with businesses, municipalities, organizations, and parishes, providing support and counseling services to over 65,000 covered employees and their family members.
The next stop at 4:15 p.m. will be a tour where Cardinal Dolan will give a special blessing to children that attend Catholic Charities Early Learning Center at 59 St. John Street in the Village of Goshen, NY. The Early Learning Center offers a full-day program for children ages six weeks to five years focused on early childhood learning, socialization skills and kindergarten readiness skills.
Cardinal Dolan’s final destination at 6 p.m. will be a cocktail reception at the 7th Annual Celebration of Charity held at Anthony’s Pier 9, 2975 Route 9W in New Windsor, NY. This annual event also includes a dinner and silent auction. 2013 Caritas Award Honorees include Reverend Jeffrey Maurer, Pastor at St Mary’s Church in Washingtonville, Scott Batulis, President and Chief Executive Officer at Orange Regional Medical Center and the Eva Fini Fund for Rett Syndrome Research.
“We are honored by Cardinal Dolan’s visit and the significant statement it makes,” says Catholic Charities Community Services of Orange County Executive Director Dean Scher. “By opening our new clinic in Middletown, Catholic Charities highlights the value we place on providing a wide range of accessible services to our local community and on providing help and hope for those struggling with substance abuse. In the Early Learning Center, we underline the importance of daycare and early education for preschoolers to ease the minds of working parents. And we gratefully acknowledge the key role of donors whose continuing support enables us to provide help and create hope for those in need.”
For information about purchasing a ticket for the upcoming 7th Annual Celebration of Charity contact Catholic Charities Community Services at 845-294-5124 ext. 303.
About Catholic Charities Community Services of Orange County
Catholic Charities Community Services of Orange County, one of the human service agencies of the Federation of the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, is committed to building a compassionate and just society. It is dedicated to serving the homeless, the hungry, the emotionally and physically handicapped, immigrants and the marginalized and vulnerable of Orange County regardless of religion. It collaborates with parishes, individuals, government and other agencies.
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
At the beginning of Lent, Pope Francis wrote to the people of Buenos Aires:
“The time the Church starts today is not for ourselves alone. It is also for the transformation of our family, of our community, of our Church, of our country, of the whole world… May we become collaborators who receive the grace and potential to recreate human life so that everyone may experience the salvation which Christ won for us by His death and resurrection.
“This year of Faith is an opportunity God gives us to grow and to mature in our encounter with the Lord made visible in the suffering face of so many children without a future, in the trembling hands of the forgotten elders and in the wavering knees of so many families who continue to face life without finding anyone to sustain them.
“We need effective gestures to alleviate the pain of so many of our brothers and sisters who walk alongside us.”
Pope Francis’ message is perhaps most poignant during Holy Week, and it points particularly to the work Catholic Charities does day in and day out to alleviate human suffering. Easter is a grace-filled reminder that the help we provide seeks to transform and create hope in the lives we touch.
Blessed Easter of joy, hope and peace to you and your families. Thank you for the joy, hope and peace that you bring to our world.
Monsignor Kevin Sullivan
Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
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By Alice Kenny
On the eve of Pope Francis’ inauguration, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan went live in a special radio broadcast of JustLove taking in listener calls from across the nation as he reflected on what the election of Pope Francis means for Catholics around the world.
“The election of Pope Francis has focused on the vitality of the Church when we focus on the basics of our faith.” Msgr. Sullivan said. “There is no better time than Holy Week when we celebrate the center of the Catholic faith: death and resurrection of Jesus. We begin these holy days with the example of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. ”
From New York to Alabama and spots in between, callers, young and old, phoned to register their excitement about Pope Francis and, in particular, his emphasis on serving those in need.
“I’m thrilled that Pope Francis is focused on service to the poor and to outreach to all people,” said Steve, a caller from New Jersey.
Catholic Charities Director of Peace and Justice Tom Dobbins, who co-hosted the show, agreed.
“When he came out saying he wants us to be a church of the poor for the poor,” Tom said, “wow – as someone who works for Catholic Charities – that was a home run.”
Listen to their conversation on JustLove on The Catholic Channel 129, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio.
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Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Sister Josepha
By Alice Kenny
Forty-eight years ago today, helmeted state troopers in Selma, Alabama used billy clubs and fists to beat back silent marchers as they tried to cross the Alabama River along Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Sister Josepha Twomey recalls that day — known forever as Bloody Sunday and memorialized by photographers’ footage broadcast on national network television – and the days surrounding it during her recent interview on JustLove radio.
“There were demonstrations going the entire year and people would gather, mostly men, at Brown Chapel which was right across the street at the big housing project in Selma,” Sr. Josepha tells Msgr. Kevin Sullivan during their radio interview. “They would march to City Hall and if they couldn’t get in they would kneel on the steps and pray and just turn around and head back.”
A member of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Rochester, Sister Josepha worked in the 1960s in the one-story St. Elizabeth School in Selma. This Catholic school, she says, offered 120 black children from nearby housing projects a green-and-white-checked uniformed, educationally sound alternative to a neighborhood public school that had no books.
The Civil Rights fight in Selma, she adds, was about “voter registration and voter rights.” Black Americans made up more than half the population in Selma yet comprised only 2-percent of registered voters. The marchers – nearly six hundred people in all – were protesting for voter rights and against the death of an unarmed man, shot three weeks earlier by a state trooper while trying protect his mother.
“Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge you have a four lane highway and that takes you to somewhere called Lowndes County, which is a single lane,” Sr. Jospha recalls. “That was KKK Country, and that’s where several of the people were killed — killed.”
Listen to her first-person account on JustLove with Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, Executive Director of Catholic Charities New York, on The Catholic Channel 129, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio.
JustLove, aired weekly on Saturday at 10 am EST and Sunday at 5 am EST, features conversations about the church in the world to promote a just and compassionate society.
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Monday, March 4th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
Karen J. Greenberg, a published author and Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, dissects controversial legal theories behind drone warfare on JustLove, the Catholic Channel, aired on Saturday, March 2, 2013.
Part of the Obama administration’s campaign against terror, drone warfare is a targeted killing program that relies on unmanned aircraft operated by remote control from a network of secret bases around the world.
Efficiency – the ability to save American lives by not putting troops in harms’ way and, in theory, reducing civilian casualties – are positive aspects of this relatively new military method, Ms. Greenberg says.
But drones’ ability to create “a reign of terror,” to heighten anti-Americanism and to promote the probable use of predator drones by other countries on American targets, she adds, makes us question “is this a road we want to go down?”
Listen to her conversation with Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, Executive Director of Catholic Charities New York, broadcasted on March 2, 2013 on JustLove, The Catholic Channel 129, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio.
JustLove, aired weekly on Saturday at 10 am EST, features conversations about the church in the world to promote a more just and compassionate society.
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
February is the toughest month, Jackie Rowe-Adams tells Msgr. Kevin Sullivan during their conversation aired on JustLove on February 23. Her two sons were shot dead in Harlem, one 15 years ago, one 30 years ago and both in February. They died for no good reason, just crazy gun violence.
“Who’s giving our kids all these guns?” she asks. “We have to take charge, take back our kids, take back our community.”
To fight back, Ms. Rowe-Adams co-founded Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E. (Stop Another Violent Act) in 2006.
The group meets regularly at Catholic Charities Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Community Center in Harlem.
Ms. Rowe-Adams confronted National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre at the group’s convention in April, she told Msgr. Sullivan, and heard back from him this month after the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school shooting.
Listen to JustLove, the Catholic Channel, to learn more about how Harlem mothers are fighting gun violence and the support they receive from Catholic Charities.
JustLove airs weekly on Saturday at 10 am EST on SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio on The Catholic Channel 129.
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
Can movies’ moral messages increase their Oscar odds? They did last night during the 85th Academy Awards.
Msgr. Kevin Sullivan and. Fr. Michael Tueth, S.J., associate professor of communication and media at Fordham University, focused on movies’ moral messages to place their bets on which films would win the Academy Awards when they spoke on JustLove, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio, aired Saturday, February 23, the night before the awards were announced.
Last night, many of their bets paid off.
Msgr. Sullivan correctly chose Jennifer Lawrence, the emotionally unstable widow featured in Silver Linings Playbook, as Best Actress in a Leading Role.
“It’s just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication,” Jennifer Lawrence said when she accepted the trophy. “But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it’s such a stigma behind it.”
“That was a movie that had a lot of morality in it,” Msgr. Sullivan said, “ a sense of both personal responsibility and mutual solidarity.”
Meanwhile, Fr. Tueth predicted that Lincoln would win as Best Picture. Although his backup bet – Argo – came in first, Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor in a Leading Role in Lincoln.
“He’s thoughtful; he’s intelligent and he’s compassionate,” Fr. Tueth said.
Listen to their conversation on JustLove, the Catholic Channel.
JustLove airs weekly on Saturday at 10 am EST on SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio on The Catholic Channel 129.
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Monday, February 11th, 2013
George Horton and his wife, Carolyn, at the Roundtable Dinner.
By Alice Kenny
George Horton, Catholic Charities New York Director of the Department of Social and Community Development, received the 2013 Servant of Justice award at the Roundtable annual awards dinner held in Washington, D.C. on February 9, 2013. The Roundtable, a national Catholic association of diocesan social action directors, focuses on social action to improve the lives of the poor and vulnerable.
“George Horton uniquely combines a strong passion for justice in public policies with an extraordinary personal compassion for those in need,” Msgr. Kevin Sullivan said when he introduced Mr. Horton for this lifetime achievement award. “Catholic Charities has been blessed by George’s perspective and goodness for more than three decades.”
Learn more about the Servant of Justice Award, the work of Mr. Horton and his lifetime of service for the poor and vulnerable.
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