by sjs | Dec 10, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Channel 7 in Detroit raises $190,000 in a 15-hour telethon to support the efforts of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Students at a Long Island elementary school spearhead a fundraising effort to fight poverty and improve education, health and development in East...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 9, 2007 | Collaboration, Featured, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
(This marks the first in a series of 10 Vincentian family projects that will be described by Fr. Robert Maloney, Chair of the Systemic Change initiative in the Vincentian Family.)Near Buckingham Palace, around the corner from the seat of the British government there...
by sjs | Dec 8, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
As we mark today the canonical establishment of the Confraternity of Charity, we are reminded of the various ways in which the needs of which Vincent preached continue. Two New York Times articles this morning report that county and parish food banks are facing...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 7, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Corruption is a constant presence in the lives of people around the world. And poor families are hit hardest by demands for bribes. These are the unsettling results of the Global Corruption Barometer 2007, (Link no longer active) published by Transparency...
by sjs | Dec 5, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In words that could have come from St. Vincent, Archbishop Agostino Marchetto said that “the situation of the homeless is not only of the one who does not have a house, but it is also the collapse of one’s own world, one’s security, personal...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 2, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
The catholic legal theory blog “Mirror of Justice” has a thought provoking reflection on a New York Times story reporting how Malawi is solving it own food problems by ignoring US aid. It could serve as a case study as we reflect on how best to effect...
