by John Freund, CM | Oct 18, 2012 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
Homeless Kids Lose a Mighty Advocate The Director of Covenant House wrote on Huffington Post… “As I sat by the bedside of Covenant House’s former president, Sister Mary Rose McGeady, in her final days, I thought about all the homeless kids she had...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 18, 2012 | Church, News
How can we think about “new evangelization” AND “media” Fr. Robert Barron offers his reflections in this YouTube video. He has become one of the main faces of American Catholicism. Outside the academic world, Fr. Barron is best known for his...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 18, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Please join in Poverty & Homelessness Action Week January 2013 and call for an end to this blame game. Are people to blame for being poor or homeless? Media stereotypes make huge assumptions – benefit claimants don’t want to work; homeless people are...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 17, 2012 | Vincentian Family
Dr John Falzon, CEO of the National Council of the SVDP in Australia, had this to say of a report highlighting that 1 in 8 Australians lives in poverty. ” The truth told by those on the margins is louder than the lies told about them. Our problem in Australia...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 17, 2012 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Associates program . The theme of the 25th anniversary year is “Companions in Discipleship.” Sisters and Associate across the country are launching the observance with local...
