by John Freund, CM | Apr 11, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
According to recent reports, more than one billion people in the world currently live on less than a dollar per day. On March 23, 20 St. John’s undergraduates traveled to the United Nations Missions of Italy and Indonesia in midtown New York to discuss the U.N.’s...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 10, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
What Would St. Vincent de Paul do about Today’s Global Poverty? On this occasion of the First Vincentian Symposium on Poverty Reduction we ask faculty, staff, and students from DePaul University (Chicago), St. John’s University (New York City), Niagara University...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 5, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Mirror of Justice”, a blog devoted to discussion of Catholic legal theory, draws attention to a piece from the Guardian in England with the headline about a forthcoming book by Benedict … “Pope’s book accuses rich nations of robbery;...
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...
