A letter sent in support of MassHealth's request to use federal funds to support families in Emergency Assistance (EA) shelters. The letter, signed by 111 organizations, was submitted to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week, and the final version is attached. Please note that since the letter was intended for organizational signatures not all names may appear - but we appreciate all of your support! We will await and hope for a positive response from CMS, and in the meantime we thank you for all you and your organizations are doing to help support families experiencing homelessness in Massachusetts.
Long-time columnist for The Boston Globe, Yvonne Abraham, has been working with the staff of Family Promise North Shore Boston to learn about the injustices of the state shelter system. With MA family homelessness being front and center since the Governor announced the 7,500 family cap on the state shelter system, Yvonne felt it was important to learn more about this system that—in our opinion—has been broken for years. Please follow along as she tells the stories of families, clients of Family Promise, who have faced incredible hardships and impossible situations.
Do a Google search for Catholic churches in Minneapolis and Spirit Catholic Community shows up on the third swipe at the top of the page, just above the listing for Newman Catholic Ministry. An accompanying map shows it amid a group of red markers denoting mostly conventional Roman Catholic churches.
The Community of St. Peter might reside outside the boundaries of the Roman Catholic Church, but it feels close enough ties that it went through a "synodal" process and addressed a four-page final document to Pope Francis.
If "demography is destiny," then a certain narrative is baked into the data describing the Catholic Church in the United States. Change is the primary theme, the constant reality over decades.
Martha Ligas learned about the Community of St. Peter in Cleveland six months before she ventured into a worship service. She hesitated because she did not want to step over an invisible line that she had straddled for so long, one foot in and one foot out of the Roman Catholic Church.