Throughout a month-long celebration, the world’s 2.2 billion Christians come together to care for our common home.
Justice and Peace
A Saint Speaks To America From His Heart
by John Freund, CM | July 6, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections | 1 Comment
I suspect you will feel moved, proud, and challenged by the words of Pope Saint John Paul II.
What Are Elements Of Structural Racism?
by John Freund, CM | June 17, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
What might be “Socially Acceptable” and “Not Socially Acceptable” elements of “structural” racism.
Sisters Speak Out Against Racism
by Spalding Hurst | June 4, 2020 | Justice and Peace, News | 1 Comment
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth delivered a statement affirming the despair being felt because voices have not been heard.
Systemic Change In a Time of National Unrest
by John Freund, CM | June 3, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change | 4 Comments
“Respect for minorities is to be considered the touchstone of social harmony and the index of the civic maturity attained by a country and its institutions” St. John Paul II
A Saint Speaks To America From His Heart
by John Freund, CM | Jul 6, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections
I suspect you will feel moved, proud, and challenged by the words of Pope Saint John Paul II.
What Are Elements Of Structural Racism?
by John Freund, CM | Jun 17, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change
What might be “Socially Acceptable” and “Not Socially Acceptable” elements of “structural” racism.
Speaking the Truth to Power at Any Age
by John Freund, CM | Sep 25, 2019 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Systemic change
Profiles in courage from the present and the past, young and old.
“Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Justice”
by John Freund, CM | Sep 11, 2019 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change
“Jesus himself warns us that the path he proposes goes against the flow, even making us challenge society by the way we live and, as a result, becoming a nuisance.”
Vincentian Influence on Catholic Social Teaching
by John Freund, CM | Sep 4, 2019 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Systemic change
Did you know how Vincentian Family members who set the stage and later advised Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 landmark statement of catholic social teaching “Rerum Novarum” (New Things)?
Compare the US Bishops of 1919 and 2019
by John Freund, CM | Aug 30, 2019 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Vincentian Family
Maybe it is true… “the more things change, the more they stay the same”! But the Gospel continues to challenge us.
Daughter of Charity Calls Attention To Situation of Immigrants in PBS Documentary
by Famvin Media Resources | Aug 3, 2019 | Daughters of Charity, Justice and Peace
Sister Denise LaRock, D.C. and her San Antonio-based Interfaith Welcome Coalition are featured in the PBS documentary series “Women War & Peace II”. See the video.
Public Statement Release of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, NJ
by Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth General Assembly | Jul 5, 2019 | Announcements, Justice and Peace, News, Sisters of Charity
The Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, during their recently finished General Assembly, they published the following Public Statement.
Our Declaration of Independence – An Examination of Conscience
by John Freund, CM | Jul 3, 2019 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change
Reading our “declaration of independence” can serve as an examination of conscience on the struggles in living out this declaration over the two and a half centuries since then.
An Opportunity For The Vincentian Family To Halt Hate
by John Freund, CM | Mar 31, 2019 | Justice and Peace, News, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
What could be simpler than to collaborate in committing oneself to respond compassionately to situations for a 24 hour period?
Doers of the Word: Saints Oscar Romero and Vincent de Paul
by .famvin | Oct 14, 2018 | Church, Justice and Peace, News
On this joyful day, a reflection for all Vincentians on Saint Oscar Romero and St. Vincent de Paul: hearers and doers of the word.