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The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland are promoting ways to work smarter in a novel and exciting partnership introduced last spring: "The Innovation Mission: Fighting Poverty with Big Ideas." [inlinetweet prefix="" tweeter="" suffix=""]Five Cleveland-area...
Jesus said it well. “The poor you will always have with you.” Could we not speak of welcoming and caring for our poorer brothers and sisters as an everlasting frontier?
Why Changing The World’s Perception Is Critical To How We Tackle Poverty
Mark McGreevey’s in combatting homelessness are successful because the many people he’s recruited to work with him from all walks of life in seven countries, and soon many more. He’s also successful, because he successfully roped the Daughters of Charity, a few of us priests and brothers and tons of lay Vincentians to join him.
What holds us back from lifting the phone and speaking for those who do not know how to negotiate our system?
Vincent truly believed in partnership in the church and that is why he listened, learned and trusted the instincts and wisdom of Louise. Together they imagined and gave birth to a movement that has inspired us all.
The poor deserve more than good-hearted amateurs. They deserve experts.
On Saturday Pope Francis said Vincentians must adore, welcome and go! Vincentians should share God’s love with action and service – “and that we can’t just sit around and wait for other people to perform our vocation.” “Love is dynamic, it goes out of itself,” the...
Pope Francis recently invited us to … “act personally instead of just looking and criticizing the work of others from the balcony,”
When St. Vincent spoke the truth to power… and what we can do today! Vincent’s courage in speaking the truth to power While Vincent is best known for his practical works of charity, he also served as an advocate for the poor before the highest authorities, at times at...
