Catholic social teaching and doctrine

Being on the Side of the Workers • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by .famvin | June 22, 2024 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam | 0 Comments

Of course, the districts of Saint-Jacques and of Jardin-des-Plantes do not always give the spectacle of the same desolation. We know there shopping streets, poor but livable houses, narrow but well-kept rooms that retain remains of an old slack, waxed furniture, white...

Vincentian Influence on Catholic Social Teaching

by John Freund, CM | September 4, 2019 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Systemic change | 1 Comment

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 | August 30, 2019 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 1 Comment

Maybe it is true… “the more things change, the more they stay the same”! But the Gospel continues to challenge us.

Civic Virtues, Civil Dialogue and Vincentian Goals

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | July 15, 2018 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

If civic dialogue about the needs of the poor and marginalized is going to move forward, Virtues can point the way.

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)?