![Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, after cutting the ribbon on a new "Pope's Laundromat" for the homeless. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, after cutting the ribbon on a new "Pope's Laundromat" for the homeless.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/2023110506114_97163899da73229346cc8b0ccf2bfd605a2d820bfc6ce654b1bc50dfe121f0a1.jpg)
Pope Francis Opens Two New Laundromats For the Homeless
The laundromats are located in the parish of San Giorgio Martire and the La Sosta welcome center in Turin’s city center and are operated by volunteers of Sant’Egidio.
The laundromats are located in the parish of San Giorgio Martire and the La Sosta welcome center in Turin’s city center and are operated by volunteers of Sant’Egidio.
How the Catholic community is working to assist those in need, offering housing to those living on the streets.
“The poor remain entrusted to us and it is this responsibility upon which we shall be judged at the end of time” —Compendium of Social Doctrine (183)
While friars serve food, volunteers kneel in prayer in a simple chapel before the Blessed Sacrament.
A formation program that is actively involved in homeless ministry in Denver marks 10 years as a Catholic apostolate.
Limits on shelter capacity, increases in the number of unsheltered, and isolation during dreary winter weather identified as key concerns.
In a statement dated April 21 but released by the Holy See press office April 27, the Holy Father noted that the pandemic posed a dire threat to the more than 100 publications sold by the homeless worldwide.
The ‘Father Woody Christmas Cash Giveaway’ was started 28 years ago with an endowment fund to honor the memory of Msgr. Charles Woodrich.
The papal almoner chauffeurs 10 homeless people each day to the beach in a van as part of Pope Francis’ initiatives to help the needy, according to Vatican Insider.
The 19th-century Polish saint who was influenced by St. Francis of Assisi later influenced Pope St. John Paul II.
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