by annaread | Oct 18, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
On World Food Day Tuesday Healthy Food for All, an agency sponsored in part by the St Vincent de Paul Society, held a roundtable aimed an improving access to nutritious food in Ireland. Visit the Healthy Food For All website.
by annaread | Oct 15, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“The Just and Moral Society: From Ideal to Reality” was the topic of Saturday’s conference on poverty presented by the Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St. John’s University. Susan Stabile, law professor at University of St. Thomas...
by annaread | Oct 15, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
As mentioned in this week’s post on systemic change, October 16 is the date on which the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations seeks annually to focus awareness on the problem of hunger. The FAO’s Web page on the theme, “The Right...
by annaread | Oct 11, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Recently the weekly feature on systemic change spotlighted Seton Harvest, a Daughters of Charity project of community supported agriculture. The Sisters of Charity of New York also have a project; see their interesting blog.
by annaread | Oct 9, 2007 | Justice and Peace, News
Take a good long look at something you don’t want to see, urges a feature writer for a Florida newspaper. He’s writing about paintings of Marge Hakel, a Saint Vincent de Paul Society volunteer who uses her paintings to portray social injustice. Painter...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 8, 2007 | Church, Justice and Peace
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, SEPT. 30, 2007 (Zenit.org) – Offering a social interpretation of the parable of Lazarus, the Holy Father referred to an encyclical from his predecessor Paul VI, “Populorum Progressio,” saying the appeal has the same urgency...