Web Site Specializes in Church’s Social Doctrine

VERONA, Italy, OCT. 19, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Material on the social doctrine of the Church is accessible online at the recently launched Web site of the Cardinal Van Thuân International Observatory. The site is at www.vanthuanobservatory.org/p_en/news.php. The aim of...

Blessed Are the Poor!~

They were nobodies. They were the poor, living on the margins of society. He lived an ascetic life somewhere in the desert of Palestine. He may have been one of the Essenes, a countercultural Jewish sect devoted to the Torah and to life lived in community. When he...

Litany of Saints for Social Justice

As we approach the feast of All Saints perhaps some might find the following compilation of Saints who lives were noted for their concern for social justice.Among those included are Blessed Frederic Ozanam St. Maximilian Kolbe St. Martin de Porres 1579-1639 St....

Justice Alert from Daughters of Charity

Nutrition Advocates, among them, Bread for the World, Catholic Relief Services, and Network, have launched urgent pleas for your involvement to help secure and save valuable funding for several threatened nutrition programs funded at the Federal level.The Senate plans...

Justice and Peace Events in October 2005

U.S. Povety Fact Sheet (for Int’l Day for the Eradication of Poverty – Oct. 17) Death Penalty Litany (for Nat’l Weekend of Faith and Action on the Death Penalty – Oct. 21-23) The Death Penalty from a CST Perspective The United Nations fact...
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