by John Freund, CM | Aug 19, 2009 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
The long-disputed sale of Exempla Lutheran and Good Samaritan hospitals to the Kansas-based Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System has been settled, the parties announced today. The sale makes Sisters of Charity the sole owner of the hospitals and means the...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 21, 2009 | Church, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
By joining the Catholics Confront Global Poverty initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services, you are helping to mobilize the power of our Catholic faith – our opposition to injustice, our vision of a just and peaceful...
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.
