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Serving those desperately in need can be dangerous, exhausting and costly, Sr. Donna Markham said, but it is at those moments, "standing with holy suffering," that fear diminishes, caution drops away, and a deep connection to the sacred becomes tangible.

Serving those desperately in need can be dangerous, exhausting and costly, Sr. Donna Markham said, but it is at those moments, "standing with holy suffering," that fear diminishes, caution drops away, and a deep connection to the sacred becomes tangible.

Kerry Alys Robinson, a veteran in Catholic nonprofit leadership, was announced July 25 as the next Catholic Charities USA president and CEO, becoming only the second layperson and second woman to lead the organization.

The outgoing president and CEO, Dominican Sister Donna Markham, is retiring this summer after eight years heading Catholic Charities USA.

Catholic leadership expert and philanthropist Kerry Alys Robinson will be the next president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA.

Catholic Charities USA, which addresses poverty and provides disaster relief in the United States, has named Kerry Alys Robinson as its next president and CEO.

The board voted “unanimously and enthusiastically” to appoint Kerry Robinson following “an exhaustive national search.”

WASHINGTON (RNS) — GOP representatives, who seem to be taking their cues from deeply conservative Catholic groups that vow to "#defund the bishops," plan to cut funding to a DHS program that supports Catholic relief centers at the United States' Southern border.

Debt ceiling negotiations are rankling some Catholic leaders.

Sister Norma Pimentel has devoted years to protecting life at the border as migrant flows rise and fall. Growing anxiety over the lifting of Title 42 controls at the border has been a recent distraction from her ministry.