Poverty: Analysis and Responses

What It’s Like To Be Homeless and Lose Everything

by | January 15, 2016 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses | 0 Comments

A great vinFormation resource teaches what it’s like to be homeless and lose everything. Hobson's choice* is the literary way of saying one has no choice at all. The only option you have is the one that is being offered to you. We have all found ourselves in such...
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SSVP: A Voice for the Poor in Ireland

by | January 8, 2016 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments

Slow economic recovery in Ireland has pushed the leader of the Society in Ireland to raise his voice for the poor. The Irish Times reports, “Geoff Meagher, national president of St Vincent de Paul (SVP), said the organisation is seeing an “alarming level” of calls...
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Laudato Si’ invoked by CM Bishop

by | October 13, 2015 | Church, Congregation of the Mission, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses | 0 Comments

Bishop Benjamin Romarosa, C.M., of Madagascar speaks of caring for our common home and Laudato Si' in a strongly worded letter to his own government. Madagascar, one of the planet’s poorest countries, has become a new Eldorado of the large international mining...
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The hidden costs of being poor

by | February 20, 2015 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses | 0 Comments

How Expensive It Is to Be Poor The Pew Research Center released a study that found that most wealthy Americans believed “poor people today have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return.”
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What is poverty? How end it?

by | Jan 13, 2014 |

Before you answer pose this question to yourself. “What if you lost everything, how long would it take you to get something to eat, find a place to stay, and a get some work?" A Brazilian pastor, Claudio Oliver, offers up a definition of poverty that most likely will...

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