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Systemic Change: Hot Right Now
Besides the weather, as a topic systemic change is equally hot right now.
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Friendship as a Key to Systemic Change
Have you ever thought of friendship as a key to systemic change in our approach to poverty? 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? Tough situation? Yes! But nothing compared to the...![The Good Samaritan and Systemic Change: A Call to Youth](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2016/07/good-samaritan-facebook.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
The Good Samaritan and Systemic Change: A Call to Youth
I wonder how many homilies over the years have urged us to be like the Good Samaritan! Young people making a pilgrimage to Krakow this month are a “summons” to the entire Church to ditch the “bad systems” which encourage a merciless heart, Archbishop Mark Coleridge...![Compassion and Systemic Change: A Vincentian Reflection](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2016/07/compassion-facebook.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Compassion and Systemic Change: A Vincentian Reflection
“Whatever else our God does, the first outburst is always compassion” Those striking words were penned by a theologian in the 14th century. Compassion: perhaps no other word goes more directly to the heart of the Gospel message, because it goes to the heart of God’s...![Ozanam on systemic change – little known insights](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2016/07/ozanam-koder-facebook.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Ozanam on systemic change – little known insights
His insights on what we would call today “systemic change” reveal a profoundly deep thinker and critic of a piecemeal approach to serving the poor.