The Louisville Courier headlines Rally warns of human trafficking during this week of Kentucky Derby. The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth played a prominent role in raising awareness of a potential spike in illegal human trafficking during Derby Week. Activists seeking to combat trafficking say major national sporting events can attract tourists trolling for prostitutes, including cases [...]
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DePaul President stands for immigration
Dennis H. Holtschneider, President of DePaul University sent famvin an explanation of why he and other university Presidents call for the passage of immigrantion legislation. (The piece appeared in copy of his piece in the Chicago Tribune) April 18, 2013 When Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman stood with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and more than a hundred of [...]
Vinnies (Australia) call for bipartisan commitment
The Australian St Vincent de Paul Society is holding the Australian government to it commitment of cutting homeless numbers in half by the end of the decade. They are calling for a bipartisan commitment in Canberra to the commitment made originally by in 2008 by Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister. The call came as “Vinnies” launched [...]
When clotheslines speak! – LCUSA and STJ
The Ladies of Charity of St. John’s University let clotheslines tell the story of sexual violence.The “Clothesline Project” at St. John’s University is just one recent example of how the Ladies of Charity can respond to the issue of violence against women. Since 2010 they have been sponsoring a campus version of the “Clothesline Project”. [...]
Daughter of Charity proposed for national award
For almost three decades, Sister Julia Huiskamp has worked with under-privileged children in the housing projects in East St. Louis. BellevilleNews Now, the Belleville Diocese hopes to recognize her efforts by nominating Huiskamp for the Catholic Church Extension Society’s prestigious Lumen Christi Award. The award, which is in its 36th year, recognizes a clergy or [...]
Sisters of Charity theme – Act Justly
S. Judith Metz reports… At a recent meeting, CEOs of the Sisters of Charity (Cincinnati) sponsored ministries and members of the Corporation Board for Sponsored Ministries discussed a desire to identify a common theme from the Sisters of Charity Mission Statement on which these ministries could jointly focus in a purposeful way over an extended [...]
Vincentian women against Trafficking
The following groups have joined with dozens of other groups to speak out against trafficking. Daughters of Charity, Prov. of St. Louise Daughters of Charity, Prov. of the West Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati Sisters of Charity of Halifax Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, KY Sisters of Charity of New York Sisters of Providence of [...]
Pope Francis and St. Vincent
Rev. Eduardo Mangiarotti, an Argentine priest. described Cardinal Bergoglio, as a man of action, and someone who can command attention. “When he preaches, he’s a man who can make the people listen to him. And not only Catholic people, I mean not only the people who belong to the church, but he’s also very known nationwide. The [...]
Pope Francis and Frederic Ozanam
In their own words… “We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least,” Cardinal Bergoglio said during a gathering of Latin American bishops in 2007. “The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits [...]
Poverty USA – United States Bishops
More than 46 million Americans live in a place that could be called the State of Poverty The people of Poverty USA are family members, neighbors, colleagues – young and old, black and white, healthy and sick, rural and urban. They are not making the headlines, much less the election-year rhetoric. Start exploring Poverty USA [...]
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