by John Freund, CM | Apr 4, 2009 | Church, Justice and Peace
“…while most world leaders these days fret over the middle class, the financial sector, ailing auto companies, and so on — all, of course, utterly legitimate concerns for elected officials — the pope has been striking a different, and badly...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 29, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Justice and Peace, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
Sr. Mary Jo Toll, SND shares another perspective on Seeds of Hope. Sr. Mary Jo is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame of the Toledo Province. She currently is NGO Representative of the worldwide Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame at the...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 22, 2009 | Featured, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
Many who work among the poor speak use a phrase that captures a key purpose of their work: systemic change. This potent idea has captured the attention and imagination of leaders of the Vincentian Family. Why? One way to look at that question is to think about the...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 19, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
Blogs are a powerful advocacy tool. The internationally successful “Blog Action Day” was October 15 2008. The topic was poverty. We’re going to work towards an international “Vincentian Blog Action Day” on the relationship of educational...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 16, 2009 | Featured, Formation, Justice and Peace, Social, Vincentian Family
That is the opinion of Sr. Margaret Fitzpatrick, SC in this weeks installment in the Lent for Systemic Change series. She is a Sister of Charity and President of St. Thomas Aquinas College in New York. She points out how the book can be used in various settings as a...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 16, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. The story of Brazil’s fourth largest city Belo Horizonte, a city of 2.5 million people, once had 11 % of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost...
