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Homeless Women Face Health Issues, Violence


In the May issue of the The Sirow Voice an article by Rosi Andrade and Franziska Frank shares the following:

“How are women becoming homeless, and how is their health and well-being affected? A recent white paper by SIROW reviewed the existing literature for answers, adding to the body of knowledge with new findings from interviews with homeless women at Sister José Women’s Center in Tucson, Arizona. Sister José Women’s Center is a nonprofit shelter, providing drop-in services (e.g., breakfast, showers, laundry facilities, pillows and cots for daytime resting, visiting outreach from local agencies, free Wi-Fi, leisure activities during the day) and overnight shelter.”

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Catholic social teaching is a central and essential element of our faith. Its roots are in the Hebrew prophets who announced God's special love for the poor and called God's people to a covenant of love and justice. It is a teaching founded on the life and words of Jesus Christ, who came "to bring glad tidings to the poor . . . liberty to captives . . . recovery of sight to the blind"(Lk 4:18-19), and who identified himself with "the least of these," the hungry and the stranger (cf. Mt 25:45). Catholic social teaching is built on a commitment to the poor. This commitment arises from our experiences of Christ in the eucharist.”

https://www.usccb.org/resources/sharing-catholic-social-teaching-challenges-and-directions

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