Catholic Charities gala raises record amount to aid those in need

Published on June 16, 2026

A pregnant survivor of domestic violence who lived in a storage unit while caring for her three-year-old daughter. A Brockton woman who took cold showers to save heating oil for her 95-year-old mother. An asylum seeker with no criminal record who was picked up by ICE on his 21st birthday and shuffled through detention centers for five months, only to be released into the winter chill wearing the same clothes he was arrested in.

These are some of the people that Catholic Charities Boston has helped in the past year. CCB provided the pregnant mother with shelter and childcare and threw her a baby shower that supplied her with everything she would need to raise her child.

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