February 8, 2012

 Feeding Our Neighbors' Campaign a Success

Catholic New York follows up on the success of the Feeding Our Neighbors campaign. “We are incredibly enthused by the positive response that we have received universally from our Catholic parishes and schools,” said Msgr. Kevin Sullivan

 

January 25, 2012

Resurrection Parish CYO to Provide 5,000 Meals for Hungry New Yorkers

On Sunday, January 22, Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) participants of Resurrection parish in Rye, New York announced a major goal for their participation in the New York Archdiocese’s Feeding Our Neighbors campaign.

 

January 23, 2012

Rusty, Dolan team vs. hunger (New York Post)

The New York Post covers the kickoff to the Feeding Our Neighbors week at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. After announcing the Archdiocesan-wide anti-hunger campaign during his homily at mass, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan blessed Rusty Staub’s Mobile Food Pantry and made the first contribution of food to the campaign.
 
 
January 22, 2012
 
Eat, pray, give Dolan tells flock to fight hunger (New York Daily News)
 
The New York Daily News details Archbishop Dolan’s plan to feed the hungry in New York through the Archdiocese-wide Feeding Our Neighbors campaign: “I just challenge everybody: Put another chair at your table and feed somebody who’s hungry,” Dolan said Sunday after launching a campaign to replenish the city’s soup kitchens, which see donations fall dramatically after the holidays. Read the full story at the Daily News website.
 
 
January 22, 2012
 
Archbishop Dolan Launches New Program to Fight Hunger (New York 1)
 
New York 1 features broadcast coverage of the kickoff of Feeding Our Neighbors Week at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan made the first contribution of food to Rusty Staub’s Mobile Food Pantry. Watch the video at New York 1.
 
 
January 21, 2012
 
Catholic Charities Campaign to Feed Our Neighbors (Staten Island Advance)
 
The Staten Island Advance covers the plight of hunger in the New York Archdiocese and what Catholic Charities is doing to help. Read the story at SILive.com.

 

January 11, 2012

"Feeding Our Neighbors" Is Catholic Campaign Goal (Catholic New York)

The cupboard isn’t bare at Immaculate Conception Church in the northeast Bronx where the soup kitchen is now serving between 150 and 180 people a day. But volunteer cook Carmen Santiago readily ticks off all the food items they’re short on.

“We need (cooking) oil, we don’t have any coffee, sugar, milk, potatoes, mixed vegetables, salt, we don’t need rice, rice we have a lot,” she said.

“This is the most tight we’ve seen it. When we cook we have to go looking for things to make because sometimes there is nothing.”

Still, no one who comes to the soup kitchen is turned away. Read more on Catholic New York online.