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.
Archbishop Ronald Hicks and Father Dave Dwyer talk about St. Patrick’s Day, St. Oscar Romero, and some questions from listeners.
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Archbishop Ronald Hicks
| 03/24/2026
Sister Clare Roche professed final vows as a Sister of the Presentation in 1954, and spent 64 years teaching in New York and Louisiana, along with serving as a pastoral associate and receptionist.
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The Good Newsroom
| 03/24/2026
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For Kejsi Saraci, a catechumen at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in the Bronx, the journey to the Church has been deeply personal and transformative.