by Beth | Aug 21, 2006 | Justice and Peace
Labor day can be a time for highlighting aspects of Catholic Social Justice Teaching.In the richest country in the world, more than two million full-time, year round workers live below the poverty line, struggling to pay for necessities such as food, housing,...
by Beth | Aug 17, 2006 | Justice and Peace
MELBOURNE, August 14, 2006 (theage.com.au): Brendan Nicholson reports for The Age – An international plan to halve global poverty by 2015 is running well behind schedule — and most of Australia’s neighbours are among the countries most in need. In a report...
by Beth | Aug 12, 2006 | Justice and Peace
On Sunday, July 23rd, Pope Benedict XVI gave a short presentation in the parish church of the village of Rhemes Saint-George, which was a meditation on the 2nd lectionary reading for that Sunday. Here is the text of his presentation.”Now in Christ Jesus you who...
by Beth | Aug 11, 2006 | Justice and Peace
‘American inequality almost took a giant step forward with the Senate’s effort to gut the estate tax,” Father Rooney said. “I find it unconscionable that House leaders pushed this effort at the expense of a straightforward vote for a minimum wage...
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...
