by John Freund, CM | Mar 27, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
It has become a trend for such charities as Goodwill to open stores that are more like traditional big-box retailers than the old, dingy thrift stores of the past. Now the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Phoenix has taken the trend a step further: It has opened a...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 26, 2007 | Congregation of the Mission
The international site of the Congregation of the Mission has just posted the report of the March Meeting of the General Curia with news of events and other plans. March 2007 Meeting link no longer active
by John Freund, CM | Mar 25, 2007 | Justice and Peace
The Christian Science Monitor of March 22 runs a story aout a 15 year old legal immigrant to the United States spent 5 years in plain view as a slave to a 60 year old man. A companion piece reports that anywhere from 50,000 to 200,00 people are now enslaved and...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 24, 2007 | Vincentian Family
Under the patronage of UNESCO, 350 AIC volunteers from 50 countries throughout the world met in Rome for the International Assembly from 9 to 14 March 2007 with the theme: “Women and Poverty – Diversity of Culturesâ€. (The Ladies of Charity USA are members and...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 23, 2007 | Church
VATICAN CITY, MARCH 23, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The preacher at a Lenten reflection attended by Benedict XVI and his aides invited listeners to reduce the scandalous abyss that separates the poor from the “satiated.” Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the...
