Governor Mike Kehoe and the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) announced the State of Missouri has been awarded more than $216 million in funding for the first year of the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, a $50 billion initiative designed to...
Starting in 2026, Missouri will prohibit the use of food stamps to purchase some junk food items. The items to be excluded from SNAP benefits includes candy, prepared desserts, soda, beverage mixes, juices and punches that are 50% or less natural fruit or vegetable...
We would like to wish everyone a safe, healthy, and blessed Thanksgiving holiday! We are thankful for your support and prayers throughout the year. Here is a Thanksgiving prayer from the USCCB. Please note that there will be no MCC Weekly Update next Friday; look for...
On Wednesday, the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) announced the state has received official guidance from the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Services (USDA-FNS) allowing partial funding to issue November Supplemental Nutrition...
President Donald Trump declared Nigeria as a country of particular concern (CPC) and has instructed the Pentagon to “prepare for possible action.” Under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998, the U.S. president must designate countries that engage in...
On Wednesday, the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) announced the state has received official guidance from the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Services (USDA-FNS) allowing partial funding to issue November Supplemental Nutrition...
On Tuesday, Governor Mike Kehoe announced additional steps his administration is taking to expedite food assistance for at-risk Missourians, given the impending loss of November Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits due to the federal government...
On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV issued the first Apostolic Exhortation of his pontificate, Dilexit Te (Latin for “I have loved you”), encouraging all Christians to care for the most vulnerable people in society: the poor, the sick, those who experience exclusion and...
On Thursday, Governor Mike Kehoe announced the approval of additional expedited disaster assistance through Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance funding to support private property debris removal in the City of St. Louis following the...
On Wednesday morning, a gunman opened fire during the opening Mass for the first week of school at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing two students, aged 10 and 8, and injuring 14 other students, as well as three adults. The shooter, a man...