by John Freund, CM | Jul 21, 2009 | Collaboration, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg visits the DREAM Center. – The prevention programme’s first baby is born. More information on this Vincentian Family project. by John Freund, CM | Jul 11, 2009 | Church, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Education for Justice has produced a very useful map or outline of the pope’s recent encyclical. Caritas in Veritate (pdf). See also John Allen’s shorter list of the some of the key points…Pope proposes a Christ humanism… Benedict says the... by John Freund, CM | Jul 9, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Nicholas Kristof asks “why we’re so willing to try to assist a stranger before us, while so unwilling to donate to try to save strangers from malaria half a world away. One of the reasons, I believe, is that humanitarians are abjectly ineffective at selling... by John Freund, CM | Jul 4, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
This video from Chicago TV puts a face on the faceless threatened by budget cuts. “Marillac House: State Cuts Could Wipe Out A Program That’s Helped Generations” See related story. by John Freund, CM | Jun 26, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Imagine if New York City’s taps went dry. What would we do? Jennifer Connelly walks to New York’s Central Park to get dirty water for her family as millions of mothers in Africa do every day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhtjOnp2G8 by John Freund, CM | Jun 24, 2009 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
The new Vincentian House in Sydney will replace a much smaller one that in the past few months has been turning away a staggering 10 times as many families as it can take. “Alarmingly, we are also seeing families becoming homeless who were previously in the...
