by sjs | Jun 15, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In Ireland, the SSVDP reports that middle class couples with mortgages are the fastest growing group seeking charitable assistance and advice. Rising energy costs and food bills mean that “financial difficulties are spilling out and crossing socio-economic...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 12, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
“When one is engaged in face-to-face charity and journeying with people the wider issues inevitably arise.” Speaking a meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Society Bob McKeon who has lived in the inner city by choice for 30 years sees how one thing leads to...
by annaread | Jun 11, 2008 | Daughters of Charity, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
St. John’s Bread and Life soup kitchen in Brooklyn, NY, founded 26 years ago by Daughter of Charity Bernadette Szymczak (d. 1998) and still served by the Daughters and a Sister of Charity, is featured in today’s New York Times. Technology has an important...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 8, 2008 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Missions inter gentes, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
We have just received notice of an exciting new blog devoted to Political Charity and Vincentian Formation. The commission on Charism and Cultures and the Asia Pacific Regional Formators have been grappling with these concepts for over a decade and have now mounted a...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 8, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
From mowing lawns to meeting needs of the marginalized, young Vincentian and Catholic social entrepreneurs grow up. Read more about de Paul University students and the prominent place of Catholic univiersities in the movement to serve the world and make a profit. Kris...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 6, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
UNESCO Brazil promoted a composition contest on the topic: “How to Stop Poverty and Inequality” – A young member of the Vincent dePaul Society used the metaphor of a recipe for baking a cake and took home the prize. From the total of 41.329...
