Author: CLAIRE SEELINGER DEVEY

This installment of our Did You Know series highlights some of Karidat’s activities over the past week. • 16 people received individual donations; dozens more were helped by goods placed…

Just in time for the Christmas season, some of karidat’s current clients have been hard at work repurposing wood pallets into beautiful and useful household items. These hardworking entrepreneurs have…

THE COMMON GOOD We began this series by emphasizing the value and uniqueness of each individual human person and then considered the importance of JUSTICE as one of the foundational…

This week, a simple reflection of the rule of life, as set out by God in the Old and New Testaments. When Jesus was questioned about which among the command-…

Last week we introduced a basic definition of justice as giving all that is due to God and others. This week let’s take it a little further and explore the…

In last week’s introductory column to Catholic Social Justice teaching, we learned that we are persons in relationship to 1) God, and 2) each other. We are free agents and…

Catholic social teaching includes all the Church beliefs and principles that have to do with society. The starting point is the firmly held understanding that all people are created by…

Karidat offers a range of programs for the benefit of people living of the CNMI. These include: EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER Temporary assistance for families/individuals who are experiencing economic hardship.…

Sometime in 1612, three young men set off in a rowboat off the coast of Cuba near El Cobre, a copper mining town. After weather- ing some stormy waters, they…