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...
by Beth | Jul 29, 2006 | Justice and Peace
The Superior General of the CM and the DC has given permission for the following email to be posted.I just got off the phone with Fr. Antoine Pierre Nakad, the director of the Daughters of Charity for the Middle East. I chose to call him because he speaks English and...