by John Freund, CM | Sep 29, 2010 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Their goal: Create a sense of community in a chaotic neighborhood overrun with drugs, prostitution and gangs. Their work mirrors, in some ways, the “new monasticism” movement, in which Christians move into urban or rural areas to work with the poor....
by John Freund, CM | Sep 29, 2010 | Systemic change
In an unprecedented action, Catholic Charities USA has drafted federal legislation that would take a new systemic change approach to ending poverty in America. Introduced as a modest national pilot program, it proposes to establish new model experiments in 10...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 28, 2010 | Vincentian Family
(Zenit).- The saint celebrated in today’s liturgy and his spiritual counterpart were “pages of the Gospel lived with intensity,” according to the retired prefect of the Vatican’s congregation for saints’ causes. This was the description...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 27, 2010 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
There are still 645 children detained in prisons of Australia and Christmas Island, according to Dr John Falzon, CEO of the National Council of St Vincent de Paul Society. Speaking in Sydney, he called for the Federal Government to fulfill a commitment it made in...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 26, 2010 | Vincentian Family
The Jubilee Year of 350th Anniversary of death of St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louise de Marillac came to an end this weekend.  Three days of celebrations prepared by Vincentian Family took place in Rome from Friday, September 24 to Sunday, September 26.The following...
