by John Freund, CM | Aug 3, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Imagine living in a place where it is illegal to sleep, sit, lie down, or share food outdoors. Imagine that this is a place where you are often ignored or rejected by your fellow townspeople, police officers, and local elected officials. Almost sounds a form of...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 26, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
The Sisters of Charity are ready serving immigrant families at the US Mexican broader according to a piece in the Global Sisters report. We Sisters of Charity who live at the U.S.-Mexico border are in a holding pattern, ready and waiting for the next planes to arrive...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 22, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
What do  Congress and Vincentians share? There are probably many different opinions on this. But as I viewed a picture in a recent  Washington Post story I was transported back to a meeting of the Vincentian Family  in Indianapolis in 2011. The Conference was entitled...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 21, 2014 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Ireland advocates for the poor in a position paper “Planning for the right kind of recovery 2015”. Introduction from SVP National President The SVP sees at first hand the impact that the crisis and the austerity...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 20, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
No Safe Place: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities Imagine living in a place where it is illegal to sleep, sit, lie down, or share food outdoors. Imagine that this is a place where you are often ignored or rejected by your fellow townspeople, police...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 18, 2014 | Daughters of Charity, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A Daughter of Charity at the border writes  “They live in local houses of compassionate foster folks and come to the “foster house” for school and play. We visit them at the foster house. All were adorably obedient and loudly responded in unison to...
