Justice and Peace

The Cost of “Preferential Option for the Poor”

by John Freund, CM | December 4, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments

Forty years ago, four women gave their lives as part of their preferential option for the poor. Read their own words. It should take just about 40 seconds.

Les Miserables – Vincentian Influences and Reflections

by John Freund, CM | November 27, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections | 1 Comment

Les Miserables strikes a chord in Vincentians when they hear… To love another person is to see the face of God. Victor Hugo admired Vincent de Paul. He based the character of the Bishop on Vincent de Paul.

Voting As a Sacred Act: Prayer and Reflections

by John Freund, CM | October 28, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments

Together, let us join in prayer each day for peaceful and just elections using this prayer and reflection.

Pope Francis’ Encyclical Read as a Puzzle

by John Freund, CM | October 7, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections | 3 Comments

In a beautiful document on the call to human community, Pope Francis offers the “Good Samaritan” as a lens through which we can look at the many serious problems of a polarized and insensitive world.

Praying for All Creation

by John Freund, CM | Aug 26, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change

Throughout a month-long celebration, the world’s 2.2 billion Christians come together to care for our common home.

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.