by sjs | Dec 1, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Food banks around the U.S. are experiencing critical shortages of food. As are other organizations, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul food pantry in Cincinnati is being forced to reduce the amount of food it is able to give to needy families. “Donations are down,...
by sjs | Nov 30, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
There has been much recent U.S. press about people losing homes because they can’t pay mortgages they should not have been given. In Ireland too, St. Vincent de Paul Society is finding increasing numbers experiencing poverty due to crippling mortgage payments...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 29, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
St Vincent de Paul Society National CEO Dr John Falzon has welcomed newly elected Kevin Rudd’s decision to address homelessness as one of his government’s top priorities.
by John Freund, CM | Nov 27, 2007 | Church, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Homelessness is “a global pandemic” that demands a Christian response and government intervention, a Vatican official said during the Vatican’s first international conference addressing the pastoral needs of the homeless....
by annaread | Nov 25, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Curried pumpkin-apple soup, tomato florentine soup, potato-vegetable chowder: it’s what’s for dinner later this week in Lewiston, Maine USA. “Lots to Gardens”, a program of sustainable urban agriculture sponsored by the Sisters of Charity...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 23, 2007 | Church, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Vatican City, Nov 22, 2007 / 08:47 am (CNA).- “The time has come to ensure, for the sake of peace, that no man, woman and child will ever be hungry again!” the Pope told members of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), gathered in Rome for...