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Thom Nickels: When religious charities get secular politics Thom Nickels December 3, 2025 December 2, 2025

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“When your cup overflows, it’s your time to shine,” said nobody in history, as far as I can tell. Yet this “quote” ran through my head when I read that the President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, Kerry Alys Robinson, had been awarded the University of Notre Dame’s prestigious Laetare Medal for her work at Catholic Charities USA. On the heels of that award, came the news that the same CEO had won the 2025 Commodore John Barry Award, an annual dinner event held at the Union League of Philadelphia.

The Commodore John Barry Awards are sponsored by the Philadelphia-based American Catholic

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