by Beth | Aug 11, 2006 | Justice and Peace
‘American inequality almost took a giant step forward with the Senate’s effort to gut the estate tax,” Father Rooney said. “I find it unconscionable that House leaders pushed this effort at the expense of a straightforward vote for a minimum wage...
by Beth | Aug 11, 2006 | Justice and Peace
Eduardo Gómez, VinPaz Consultant, writes of VinPaz and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Haiti 2003-2006 The winter 2002, Gene Smith, President of the Council of the United States, invited me to serve on a recently created commission. The International President,...
by Beth | Aug 6, 2006 | Justice and Peace
POPE BENEDICT has insisted on an immediate ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, directly challenging the American-led position that conditions are not yet right for a halt in fighting. Speaking on Wednesday in St Peter’s Square, where he...
by Beth | Aug 4, 2006 | Justice and Peace
Deacon Arnold Hernandez, a Texas-born farm worker who is now a Vincentian evangelist, tries to comment about the squalor suffered by these legal guest workers to farm owners and operators.HUNTINGTON, Ind. (Our Sunday Visitor) – There’s a barn in southeast...
by Beth | Jul 30, 2006 | Justice and Peace
In this moment I cannot help think of the situation, ever more grave and more tragic, that the Middle East is going through: hundreds of dead, many wounded, a huge number of the homeless and refugees; houses, towns and infrastructure destroyed; meanwhile, hatred and...
by Beth | Jul 29, 2006 | Justice and Peace
Father Robert Maloney’s ‘A Vincentian Reflection on Peace’ is available online.It is reprinted from VINCENTIANA 2004:2 and can currently be found at cmglobal.org Two brief excerpts… … Mediation as ministry To borrow a phrase from Karl...
