by John Freund, CM | Mar 6, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The drumbeat of early warnings of historically high food prices leaning to a major global crisis rooted might help put some perspective on the Lenten call for prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Food price spikes are more than a blip on the Chicago Board of Trade. The...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 6, 2011 | Vincentian Family
“Let us focus especially on our relationship with the poor” writes Fr. Gregory Gay in his Lenten letter. (Lent-2011-ENG) If “metanonia” literally means “change your way of thinking”, then Lent is the perfect time for us to look at...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 5, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
It is so easy. Click, click. Point. Tag. Retweet. “Click-activism”! Just a few motions with my index finger and I am changing the world.Press that “like” button. Join that Facebook group. In a fraction of a second, I am saving the environment from the...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 5, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Poverty statistics in a one minute video presentation which puts poverty in the developed world into perspective. This video offers a simplified and visually engaging way to think about global poverty as the distance between the 231 peope who live...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 4, 2011 | Vincentian Family
PARIS: Under the heading of “Every Council on Internet”, the website of the General Council of the St Vincent de Paul Society (Link no longer active) has a message indicating that the Comission for International Communications is encouraging each Council...