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The following remarks were made by Archbishop Myers at a Catholic Health and Human Services (CHHS) board presentation on June 10 at the Archdiocesan Center, Newark. Members of the boards of CHHS and its subsidiary agencies, Cathedral Healthcare System, Catholic Charities, Mount Carmel Guild and Trinity Management and Technology Corp., were present. Today we begin a new day in serving the poor, the marginalized, the newcomer. Today, we renew our commitment to the cities in this Archdiocese. Today, we renew our commitment to the people who live in these cities. Today, under a new banner—Catholic Health and Human Services—we reaffirm the mission of all Catholic people of this great Archdiocese to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Many of the challenges that brought the two organizations that for years each of you has helped guide and shape—health care and social outreach—remain, and we know that CHHS will continue to meet those challenges. Yet we know there are today new challenges never before considered and new challenges we never thought we could handle. Our faith, and our call to witness, require us to meet them as best we can. In the months ahead CHHS will begin to focus on the new challenges and problems that our society presents to the most fragile of our sisters and brothers. Meeting these needs will be even more critical at this time, because government at all levels finds itself financially limited and society in general seems not to share our concerns. We can only show them the way by doing the right thing and doing it well. We hope for and will welcome partnership with governments and with others who will join us in helping those in need. I am grateful to each of you for being here today, for demonstrating your faith—faith in God and faith in people—and for your energy as the Archdiocese of Newark begins this new chapter of service to those most in need.
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