by John Freund, CM | Apr 4, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Justice for Immigrants website is produced by a coalition of more that a dozen Catholic groups working on this issue. Why does the church care about immigration policies? The Catholic Church has historically held a strong interest in immigration and how public...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 4, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
ROME (AFP) – Despite projections of a bumper grain crop this year, 33 countries will not have enough food, with Iraq and Zimbabwe among the hardest hit, the UN food agency said Tuesday. Countries with “widespread lack of access to food” include...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 1, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Wealthy countries are spending far more to limit their own risks from global warming’s consequences than to help the world’s most vulnerable regions. From an article in the New York Times 4/1/07 Next Friday, a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 31, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Prostitution has existed for a long time in Limoges, as it has in other cities. In September 2001, at the beginning of the academic year, we were struck by the increasing number of younger people gathering and settling in a particular area of the city centre. The new...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 28, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
THE St Vincent de Paul Society (Australia) is concerned at the suggestion of a $10 a tonne carbon levy as a way of tackling the important issue of climate change. While much of the debate has focused on the impact a levy would have on business and the economy, our...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 27, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
It has become a trend for such charities as Goodwill to open stores that are more like traditional big-box retailers than the old, dingy thrift stores of the past. Now the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Phoenix has taken the trend a step further: It has opened a...