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Notice from the SVDP USA

by | September 5, 2017 | News, Social, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments

The SVDP USA changed their advocacy platform last month to "VoterVoice." Many in the Vincentian Family are accustomed to "CapWiz," and now when you go to the CapWiz link you get a message with only this information: The SVDP writes The new link is:...
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Seeing Better and Systemic Change

by | August 23, 2017 | Formation, Systemic change | 0 Comments

In his wonderful new book Vincentian Meditations, Tom McKenna has a chapter on “seeing better.” He asks “what does standing under Vincent’s influence do to an individual?” And one response is that one can see better. That can mean many things but it might would...
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Intersections

by | June 28, 2017 | Formation, Systemic change | 0 Comments

“Those on top, like politicians and church leaders, talk a lot about peace, but not about justice, because speaking of peace sounds good to others on top and to the naïve on the bottom, but to speak of justice sounds bad to those on top because it opens the eyes of...
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Bullfights and Systemic Change

by | June 14, 2017 | Formation, Systemic change | 1 Comment

It caught my eye immediately. A statue on his desk—a bullfight scene. But not what you would expect. This one was strikingly different—here the bull was sitting on the matador holding him down! Talk about the unexpected. A paradigm shift? No, a complete reversal! We...
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The voice of the poor – ten years later

The voice of the poor – ten years later

by | Jan 25, 2015 |

Recently 100 Christian leaders called on presidential candidates to declare themselves on issues encompassed by the "Circle of Compassion". Way back in 2005 Fr. Dennis Holtschneider CM proposed that the Vincentian Family become, in effect, lobbyists for those who have...