By Twenty-one diocesan officials lobbied Congress on housing, food insecurities, and other poverty-related issues.
Catholic Charities USA brought its traveling “People of Hope Museum” to Capitol Hill for its annual advocacy day, inviting members of Congress to see firsthand how its ministries impact both those who serve and those they serve.
“We’re anxious to get them to visit this,” Luz Tavarez, vice president for government relations at Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), told EWTN News. Tavarez was among 21 diocesan officials who participated in CCUSA’s annual “Hill Day” on May 19-20 to lobby Congress on housing, food insecurities, and other poverty-related issues.
CCUSA’s mobile museum is scheduled to be parked on the National Mall in front of the Capitol through May 22.
“Whatʼs really amazing about the People of Hope Museum is that itʼs a firsthand account of how we see Jesus in the people we serve,” she said. “So, I really hope that they do get down here. We have invited every single one of them to come, so weʼll see.”
The group met with about 60 offices, Tavarez said, including members of the House and Senate.
Four members addressed CCUSA, including Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts, Rep. James Clyburn, D-South Carolina, Rep. Mike Lawler, R-New York, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
“All of those members challenged us to just continue to hit the ground educating members of the important work that we do,” Tavarez said. “I think thereʼs a recognition on both sides of the aisle of how critical the work that Catholic Charities around the country, the work that we do, is. But again, our goal was just really to ensure that government funding, government appropriations, is reaching the most vulnerable.”
Tavarez highlighted the recently-passed farm bill and housing issues as areas where they found bipartisan support among members. She said the group did not experience much pushback but that the challenge lay in educating members “on how our Catholic faith is translated into the policy positions we take, and thatʼs just consistent on both sides of the aisle.”
The lobbying day came a week after Democratic senators pressed Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner over missing data on homelessness and the Trump administration’s planned cuts to federal funding for homelessness.
“Itʼs important to understand that not everyone understands the work that we do,” she said. “And for some people, Catholic Charities means just one thing, you know, perhaps itʼs working with immigrants. For other people, Catholic Charities is just the local food pantries. And there is some intersection there.”
“What is beautiful about ‘Hill Day’ in my view is that Catholic Charities, of course, is not a political or partisan entity,” CCUSA CEO Kerry Alys Robinson told EWTN News. “It is a social ministry of the Church, and it encompasses the full political spectrum.”
“Elected officials across the aisle all understand just how important Catholic Charities is to their constituents in their districts and in their states,” she said. “So I think judging from all reports, the meetings went very, very well, and our diocesan directors are especially happy to be here.”
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Dog and pony show.
And not unrelated is the bishops protecting and wanting even more illegal aliens, which increases homelessness.
These bishops endanger us, our families and our children.
They protect people whose first moral act in the U.S. is to disregard and violate our laws by entering illegally; then lowering wages for Americans, crowding schools, overtaxing health systems (notice how much longer it takes now to get an appointment with your doctor), raising rents and housing costs (which increases homelessness), WITH 50% OF ILLEGAL ALIEN FAMILIES ON WELFARE, far higher than the average for non-illegals (see below the information), not to mention the STEALING OF BILLIOS of taxpayer dollars as in Minnesota and california (see information below),
or “non-violent crimes” such as DWI, fraud, theft, identity theft, drug trafficking, child pornography possession, and some forms of human trafficking and child molestation
or the horrible crimes, such as:
“THE OFFICE OF THE TENNESSEE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS GENERAL CONFERENCE HAS RELEASED ITS ANNUAL STATE IMMIGRATION REPORT REVEALING THAT IN 2025, ILLEGAL MIGRANTS COMMITTED 2,183 VIOLENT OFFENSES, INCLUDING 41 HOMICIDES, 145 SEXUAL OFFENSES, 11 CHILD RAPES, AND MORE.” Tennessee Releases Staggering Stats on Migrant Crime
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/02/02/tennessee-releases-staggering-stats-migrant-crime/
ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Accused of Raping 5-Year-Old Girl in Long Island, New York
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/25/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-child-rape-long-island/
Taxpayers Footed Housing Costs and Tuberculosis for Illegal Alien Accused of Murdering Sheridan Gorman in Sanctuary City Chicago. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials say Medina-Medina was apprehended crossing the southern border on May 9, 2023, but was released into the U.S. interior under former President Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas’s expansive catch and release policy. ICE officials have confirmed that Medina-Medina was first apprehended at the southern border on May 9, 2023, and that, as a result of the Biden administration’s expansive catch and release policy, he was released from Border Patrol custody into the United States interior, where he made his way to Chicago. A month later, in June 2023, Medina-Medina was arrested in Chicago for shoplifting, but ICE was not contacted about his arrest, thanks to the city and state’s sanctuary policies, and therefore, he was not turned over to federal agents to face deportation.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/25/report-taxpayers-footed-housing-costs-for-illegal-alien-accused-of-murdering-sheridan-gorman/
An illegal alien accused of raping and murdering 13-year-old Oscar Hernandez last year in the sanctuary state of California has been hit with additional child rape charges involving two other teen boys.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/12/sanctuary-california-illegal-alien-hit-with-more-child-rape-charges-after-allegedly-murdering-boy/
414 Illegal Alien Child Sex Offenders Arrested in Houston During President Trump’s First Year
ICE: 414 Illegal Alien Child Sex Offenders Arrested in Houston
LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a plea for authorities to keep a Lexington inmate in custody on Wednesday, April 1. Jorge Luis Martinez Ulloa, 31, was arrested on March 28 following the reported kidnapping, rape, and strangulation of a minor. He faces kidnapping of a minor, first-degree strangulation, two counts of first-degree rape of a victim under 12, two counts of first-degree sodomy of a victim under 12, and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a victim under 12 charges. This child predator should have NEVER been in our country, but illegally entered our nation 4 TIMES under the Obama and Biden administrations,” DHS wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
https://fox56news.com/news/local/lexington/homeland-security-pleads-to-keep-sick-monster-accused-of-lexington-kidnapping-rape-in-custody/
Illegal Alien Arrested for Sexually Assaulting 14-Year-Old Girl in Swank Utah Ski Town
24-year-old arrested, accused of sexually assaulting Park City High School student
Nearly Half of Immigrant Households in U.S. Are on Welfare
Analysis: Nearly Half of Immigrant Households in U.S. Are on Welfare
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/19/analysis-nearly-half-of-immigrant-households-in-u-s-are-on-welfare/
An illegal alien, released into the United States by the Biden administration, is now charged with murdering 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyal University in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois.
Five Biden Illegals Wanted for Homicide in Their Home Countries Arrested by ICE Boston
https://x.com/EROBoston/status/2041492701984551040
ICE Agents Find Illegal Alien Wanted for Murdering Woman in Mexico Hiding Out in Arizona
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/04/08/exclusive-ice-agents-find-illegal-alien-fugitive-hiding-out-in-arizona-after-allegedly-murdering-woman-in-mexico/
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says the horrific murder of a woman who was bludgeoned to death at a Fort Myers gas station on April 3 was totally preventable, pointing to the fact that the suspect is a Haitian national in the U.S. illegally who benefited from former President Joe Biden’s open border policies.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/04/08/florida-attorney-general-james-uthmeier-another-horrific-illegal-alien-murder-this-was-preventable/
An 18-year-old illegal alien student at Fairfax County High School in Virginia has been convicted on nine counts of groping girls in the hallways. On Friday, Israel Flores Ortiz, an illegal alien from El Salvador who crossed the United States-Mexico border in 2024 and was released into the United States by the Democrat administration, was convicted after he groped girls at the high school.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/04/10/illegal-alien-convicted-nine-counts-groping-girls-virginia-high-school/
ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Killers, Child Predators, Sexual Abusers on Anniversary of Victims Unit for Angel Families
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/04/10/exclusive-ice-arrests-illegal-alien-killers-child-predators-sexual-abusers-anniversary-victims-unit-angel-families/
ICE Arrests Trio of Criminal Illegal Aliens Convicted of Child Sex Crimes in Minnesota in One Day
Release Date: April 16, 2026
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/04/16/ice-arrests-trio-criminal-illegal-aliens-convicted-child-sex-crimes-minnesota-one
Officials in New York City are reportedly refusing to hand over an illegal alien accused in a deadly arson attack that killed four, including a 3-year-old boy. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News the city is refusing to hand over 38-year-old Mexican national Roman Ceron Amatitla to immigration officials, the outlet reported Thursday.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/04/17/report-nyc-refuses-ice-detainer-illegal-alien-charged-arson-killed-4-including-3-yr-old/
D Vance Exposes $15 Million in Medicaid Theft by Single Migrant in Maine
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/05/15/jd-vance-exposes-15-million-in-medicaid-theft-by-single-migrant-in-maine/
Decmocrat-Released Illegal Alien Accused of Repeatedly Raping 12-Year-Old Girl in Florida
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/05/18/biden-released-illegal-alien-accused-repeatedly-raping-12-year-old-girl/
Democrat-Released Illegal Alien Gets 50 Years in Prison for Producing Child Porn of His Special Needs Niece, Nephew
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/21/illegal-alien-gets-50-years-in-prison-for-producing-child-pornography-of-special-needs-niece-nephew/
Catholic Charities USA in my opinion is nothing other than a leftist political lobbying operation designed to extract money from the Federal government to fund their political operation under the guise of doing faith-based charity. They are a close cousin to CCHD