Matthew Knee, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida, says residents' top needs are 'essential supplies'

Published on September 1, 2023

Catholic aid workers are rolling up their sleeves to help tens of thousands after Tropical Storm Idalia slammed into the nation’s Southeast.

“I just feel horrible for residents, that they had to go through this,” Matthew Knee, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida, told OSV News.

Initially a Category 4 hurricane, Idalia made landfall Aug. 30, hitting Florida’s Big Bend area — where the state’s panhandle meets its peninsula — as a Category 3 tropical storm, and the largest to touch down in the Big Bend area in more than 125 years.

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