New York City experienced the largest increase in homelessness of any city in the country between 2022 and 2023, according to an April report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Over 120,000 people reside in the city’s shelter system, and more than 4,000 live unsheltered in public spaces.
To help people who approach St. Patrick’s Cathedral for assistance, Colin Nykaza, Director of Evangelization and Service Outreach at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, contacted City Relief, a Christian nonprofit organization that creates pop-up outreach events in New York City and New Jersey to help the homeless. Together with Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church they hosted their first onsite homeless outreach.
The group is named for two patrons with causes for canonization underway: Staten Island's Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, and Sister Thea Bowman.
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OSV News
| 03/03/2026
El Mes de la Historia de la Mujer es una ocasión providencial para contemplar con gratitud la huella imborrable que tantas mujeres hispanas han dejado en la Iglesia y en el mundo.
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Buenas Noticias
| 03/03/2026
Archbishop Hicks explains the remedy for hypocrisy in today’s Gospel.