by John Freund, CM | Oct 16, 2011 | Justice and Peace
Susan Stabile, occasional famvin poster, offers the following reflection on World Food Day. “Today is World Food Day. It is also Blog Action Day, an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 16, 2011 | Justice and Peace
Did you know that Monopoly was invented by a Quaker woman to show how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants? James Martin in a piece America magazine called “God’s economy” connects the dots. “Unregulated capitalism results in...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 5, 2011 | Justice and Peace
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) is urging participants of this weeks’ National Tax Forum to avoid divisive and fruitless arguments over whether we should tax consumption or income, and to focus instead on practical solutions to the challenges of...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 1, 2011 | Justice and Peace
September 24, 2011 – 21,000 children die every day around the world. That is equivalent to: 1 child dying every 4 seconds 14 children dying every minute A 2011 Libya conflict-scale death toll every day A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring every 10 days A 2004 Asian...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 1, 2011 | Justice and Peace
The following appeal, published by Catholic Moral Theology, calling for the abolition of the death penalty in the USA has already been signed by 160 leading Catholic academics: (Breaking News… Vatican Clarification on Death Penalty) There were two...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 17, 2011 | Justice and Peace
The international Union of Superiors General, based in Rome draws attention to  International Day of Prayer for Peace (September 21) Anyone, anywhere can celebrate Peace Day. It can be as simple as lighting a candle at noon, or just sitting in silent meditation. Or,...