ABOUT

Kerry Robinson is President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA.

Kerry was the founding executive director of Leadership Roundtable in 2005 and now serves as a member of its Board of Trustees.

A lifelong member of the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities and FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities), Kerry has been an advisor to and trustee of more than 25 grant-making foundations, charitable nonprofits and family philanthropies. Kerry served as the executive director of the Opus Prize Foundation which is responsible for an annual international million-dollar prize honoring people of faith whose lives are dedicated to the alleviation of human suffering.

Kerry served as the director of development for Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University and led a successful $75 million dollar fundraising drive to expand and endow the Chapel's intellectual and spiritual ministry and to construct a Catholic student center, designed by Cesar Pelli, on Yale’s campus.

Kerry is the author of the prize winning book, Imagining Abundance: Fundraising, Philanthropy, and A Spiritual Call to Service. She is the recipient of twelve honorary doctorates and is the recipient of the 2025 Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame.

She and her husband, Michael Cappello, M.D., chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health, have two children, Christopher and Sophie.

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PREACHING

November 22, 2026

Solemnity of Christ the King

Let us resolve to evince genuine Christian love as we heed the mandate to feed, clothe, welcome, shelter, visit, and care for people in need.
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August 15, 2022

Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary

This Gospel is also a celebration of women. An acknowledgement of the burdens women encounter and endure and the grace by which women often transform the realities in which they find themselves to be a blessing for others.
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November 1, 2018

All Saints Day

We are reminded that the invitation to sanctity is not for the unattainably pious or impossibly virtuous, but for all of us.
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December 11, 2016

Third Sunday of Advent

Ultimately this day of rejoicing is about celebrating what is good in order to find the strength to fix what is wrong.
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