by John Freund, CM | Apr 20, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Apr. 18, 2007 12:00 AM Arizona’s working poor all too often turn to payday loans for emergency cash and end up trapped in the cycle of debt. Members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul have been among those speaking out for meaningful consumer protection for...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 15, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
SYDNEY, April 15, 2007 ( The St Vincent de Paul Society has called on both sides of politics to act on the key recommendations of the Senate Poverty Inquiry Report tabled three years ago. Dr John Falzon, chief executive officer of the Society’s national council,...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 14, 2007 | Justice and Peace
Can a computer game help people learn about situations in Dafur, understand possibilities in the Palestinian conflict or tackle food crisis in a region? Consider “Darfur Is Dying” , part of a growing but still nascent “games for change”...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 7, 2007 | Justice and Peace
Readings Acts 10:34a, 37-43 Psalms 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8 John 20:1-9 Quotes The power of the Spirit, who raised Christ from the dead, is continuously at work in the world. Through the generous sons and daughters of the Church...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 6, 2007 | Justice and Peace
Readings Genesis 1:1–2:2 Genesis 22:1-18 Exodus 14:15–15:1 Isaiah 54:5-14 Isaiah 55:1-11 Baruch 3:9-15, 32–4:4 Ezekiel 36:16-17a, 18-28 Romans 6:3-11 Luke 24:1-12 Quotes It would be a contradiction to settle for a life of mediocrity, marked by a...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 5, 2007 | Justice and Peace
Readings Isaiah 52:13–53:12 Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 18:1–19:42 Quotes From the beginning the Church has lived and understood the Death and Resurrection of Christ as a call by God to conversion in the faith of Christ and in love of one another,...
