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The working homeless (Invisible People video)
by John Freund, CM | Sep 8, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Wanda is what's known as the "working poor". She rides three buses - a two and a half hour ride - just to get to her job every day. But she is grateful to have a job. And she is living in a shelter. Wanda never imagined she's be homeless at 59. Her husband has serious...
SCN – Sewing Partners of Belize
by John Freund, CM | Sep 7, 2012 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
Sewing Partners of Belize:From Paschal Maria Fernicola, SCN: "August 23rd, our Las Flores sewing co-op decided unanimously to join a country-wide organization of sewing groups, directed by Pedro and Maria Perez of the Christian Sewing Partners of Belize, a branch of...
WALMART – Unlabeled genetically modified sweet corn
by John Freund, CM | Sep 7, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
FoodFirst writes, "Walmart has decided to sell unlabeled, untested, Monsanto GMO sweet corn." "Bt toxin works as an insecticide by disintegrating the lining of insects’ stomachs when they ingest the corn. What is this doing to the bodies of your customers who eat the...
Digital media – the new confessional?
by John Freund, CM | Sep 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Robert Saler writes of the questions raised by a "...  recent post in the Chronicle of Higher Education in which a professor blames social media for the fact that, in his view, current generations of college students share overly intimate details of their lives...
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth – immigration reform
by John Freund, CM | Sep 6, 2012 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
SCN Family writes "Communities of Catholic Sisters based in Ohio and Kentucky are calling on President Obama and Congress to work together to enact comprehensive immigration reform and State legislators to refrain from passing laws that would restrict the human rights...
Sisters call for comprehensive immigration reform
by John Freund, CM | Sep 6, 2012 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
The New York and New Jersey members of the Sisters of Charity Federation are inviting all their members and associates to contact legislators and urge comprehensive immigration reform, juxtaposing  both the borders we maintain and the realization that the Kingdom of...
100 years, 80 as a Daughter of Charity
by John Freund, CM | Sep 6, 2012 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
Sister Amelia Lenz, DC, who will celebrate her 100th birthday and 80th jubilee as a Daughter of Charity this weekend. Sister Amelia served as a nurse at hospitals in Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, and Missouri. She now serves in the Ministry of Prayer. The photo on the...
SVDP Canada – Nicaragua “2012 Pencil Case Project”
by John Freund, CM | Sep 6, 2012 | Vincentian Family
The participants in the hugely successful  Fourth Annual Pencil Case Project, "To Nicaragua With Love", which included elementary schools in: Hamilton, London, Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo,  collaborated to send two and half tons of school supplies to Nicaragua....
Vinnies Vintage Fashion Parade – Fashion with a difference
by John Freund, CM | Sep 6, 2012 | Vincentian Family
Brisbane, Australia - Vinnies Vintage Fashion Parade -Â The annual Vinnies Vintage Fashion Parade and Mini Cent Sale, to be held September 16, is shaping up to be one fashionable affair. Held by the St Vincent de Paul Society's Townsville Diocesan Central Council, all...
LCUSA slate of Officers for 2013-14
by John Freund, CM | Sep 5, 2012 | International Association of Charities - Ladies of Charity, Vincentian Family
During the closing liturgy of the upcoming national assembly, Gayle Johnson of Kansas City will be installed as president of LCUSA for a two year  term beginning January 1st, 2013. CANDIDATES Mary Ann Dantuono, the candidate for LCUSA’s president elect, has worked on...