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2. Catholic charities - Wikipedia

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   Catholic charities. The Catholic Church operates numerous charitable organizations . Catholic spiritual teaching includes spreading the Gospel, while Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church is the largest non-governmental provider ...

3. List of patron saints by occupation and activity - Wikipedia

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   Farm workers - Andrew the Apostle, Benedict of Nursia, Bernard of Vienne, Eligius, George, [ 10] Isidore the Farmer, Notburga, Phocas the Gardener, Walstan. Farriers - Eligius, John the Baptist. Field workers - Medard. Firefighters - Eustace, [ 20] Florian [ 5] Brazilian firefighters - George.

4. Catholic Worker Movement - Wikipedia

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   catholicworker .org. The Catholic Worker Movement is a collection of autonomous communities founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in the United States in 1933. Its aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ". [ 2] One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on the margin of society, based on the ...

5. Hierarchy of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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   The hierarchy of the Catholic Church consists of its bishops, priests, and deacons. [ 1][ 2] In the ecclesiological sense of the term, "hierarchy" strictly means the "holy ordering" of the church, the Body of Christ, so to respect the diversity of gifts and ministries necessary for genuine unity. In canonical and general usage, it refers to ...

6. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo

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   Name Image Location Parish founded Church built Architect Description/Notes; Assumption 435 Amherst St. 1888 1914 Schmill & Gould Chronologically Buffalo's third Polish Catholic parish, Assumption was founded to serve the then-newly established Polish enclave in the eastern part of the Black Rock neighborhood, who felt unwelcome at the predominantly-German St. Francis Xavier and for whom the ...

7. Catholic sisters and nuns in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The Sisters of Saint Anne are a Roman Catholic religious institute, founded in 1850 in Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada, by the Blessed Marie Anne Blondin, S.S.A. The Sisters arrived in the United States in September 1867 at the request of the Bishop of Buffalo, opening a school in Oswego, New York. [ 7] Between 1840 and 1930 approximately 900,000 ...