by Beth | Sep 2, 2005 | Uncategorized
Frederick Ozanam was born in 1813 and grew up in Lyon, France. While still very young he went to study law at the University of Paris. He found that some of his professors were hostile to Catholic teaching and Frederick took them on defending the Church at every...
by Beth | Sep 2, 2005 | Disasters and Responses, News
Every time there is a disaster, scam artists crawl out of the woodwork. [See http://tinyurl.com/96c2t] The United States Federal Trade Commission has a free article on how to avoid becoming a victim of charity fraud: Federal Trade...
by Beth | Sep 1, 2005 | Justice and Peace
So reads the title of a recent article in AMerica Magazine. “when people think of issues on which the Catholic Church is providing leadership in society, labor is not the first that comes to mind.”While Catholics in general care about the low-wage workers,...
by Beth | Sep 1, 2005 | Vincentian Family
ST. LOUIS/EWORLDWIRE/Aug. 29, 2005 — The national Society of St. Vincent de Paul(SVdP) will honor Eugene Smith, SVdP’s president for the past six years, at the Society’s national meeting in Chicago, August 31 to September 3 at the Sheraton Chicago...
by Beth | Sep 1, 2005 | Disasters and Responses, News
In an amazing demonstration of the power of Wikipedia this open source encyclopedia already has an article on Katrina and its aftermath that is amazing in its depth and synthesis. (It is still constantly evolving.)1 Storm history 1.1 Storm development 1.2 Tornadoes...
