by John Freund, CM | Jun 19, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Feature phones are not the future. Of course that verges on tautology; of course everyone will have a smartphone, until everyone has something smaller and better and even more integrated into the fabric of our lives, like Google Glasses or cybernetic jawbone/retinal...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 19, 2012 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Sister Germaine Price, representing the Company of the Daughters of Charity at the United Nations, reports on the international site of the Daughters of Charity  about the following activities in the UN in New York: Over the last two decades, there have been many...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 18, 2012 | Vincentian Family
According to the Canberra Times the female CEOs who are participating in Thursday’s Vinnies CEO Sleepout are focusing on the hidden face of female homelessness. The latest figures show more than 60 per cent of people assisted by a homelessness service were...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 18, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Uncategorized
It’s only a game! Or is it? Spent (http://playspent.org/ ) – PlaySpent is an online game that involves the player taking on the role of an unemployed, single parent who has to make it through the month on their last $1,000. The player does this by solving...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 18, 2012 | Vincentian Family
The Superior General writes… May the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be forever in our hearts! I write to make you aware of a unique program on spiritual direction in the Vincentian tradition offered at All Hallows College in Dublin, Ireland. Sponsored by the...