Archdioceses work to meet need for low-income housing

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Archdioceses work to meet need for low-income housing
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Philadelphia, Oct. 12, 2006 (CNA) - Archdioceses across the U.S. are assisting families and seeking to alleviate their hardship by providing low-income housing. Two archbishops will bless recently completed low-income housing projects this week.

Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia will bless the home of Antonio Moreno and his family today in the St. Hugh Neighborhood of Philadelphia.

The house is the first completed by the Archdiocesan Office for Community Development in its initiative to rehabilitate 17 formerly vacant, blighted houses in the area for low- to moderate-income homeownership. …
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as usual I ask that you read the whole article.
 
The good news goes on and on. Archbishop Wurel was the Bishop of Pittsburgh prior to being in Washington, DC.
In Washington,D.C, Archbishop Donald Wuerl will dedicate Grace House, a 32-unit assisted-living residence, providing much needed housing for low- and moderate-income senior citizens in Silver Spring. It was completed this month.
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Archbishop Wuerl will be joined for the Oct. 17 dedication by local officials, Fr. Peter Sweeney, pastor of Our Lady of Grace Parish; and Jim Brown, the president of Victory Housing, which provides affordable housing for seniors and families in the archdiocese through public-private partnerships. Victory Housing operates a total of 17 communities in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
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The archdiocese began to renovate the property in November 2005 and Moreno purchased the house in July 2006. The home had been seized in a drug raid prior to the archdiocese taking possession of it.
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This sounds like a good program. I hope other dioceses take an interest in it.
 
I wish we would get involved in it. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia has been steadily churning out low-income housing for the past twenty years while the rest of the Christian community, Catholics included, do little more than pay lip service.
 
I wondered if I am the only one to notice that good news seems to garner less attention then bad.

Church scandal many posts.
Church good deeds very few.
 
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KathleenElsie:
I wondered if I am the only one to notice that good news seems to garner less attention then bad.
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Unfortunately, good news is no news.
(well, maybe its fortunate… but you know what I mean)
 
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