by Beth | Dec 27, 2006 | Justice and Peace
Christmas challenges us to discover the face of Christ in each brother or sister that we greet, in each friend whose hand we shake, in each beggar who ask for bread, in each worker who wants to exercise the right to join a union, in each farm workers who looks for... by Beth | Dec 20, 2006 | Justice and Peace
A parish in the Philippines capital of Manila is constructing a church from recycled materials in the midst of the infamous Smokey Mountain shanty town in what the parish priest describes as the world’s first ever environmental church. AsiaNews reports that the... by Beth | Dec 15, 2006 | Justice and Peace
L’Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, carried an editorial which asserted that ecological crises pose “a bigger global threat than terrorism.”Just this week, the Vatican released Benedict XVI’s message for the World Day of... by Beth | Oct 18, 2006 | Justice and Peace
Maureen Tinkler, DC writes… A new initiative is being launched this Advent by CAFOD in collaboration with PROGRESSIO (formerly CIIR) called THE LIVESIMPLY PROJECT. It is a good thing for the Vincentian Family to belong to and the Daughters of Charity have kindly... by Beth | Oct 17, 2006 | Justice and Peace
WASHINGTON, D.C., OCT. 17, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Raffaele Martino will address a meeting in San Francisco to discuss what the Catholic Church can do to alleviate global poverty. “Point 7 Now! Keeping America’s Promise to Make Poverty History,”... by Beth | Oct 15, 2006 | Justice and Peace
A former volunteer in Eritrea writes of another level of dialogue and conversin.”I thought that perhaps this one time I could offer something in the ongoing discussion your writers are producing regarding the relation of Catholicism and Islam. I have some...