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Systemic Change Example – Video
The Rural Development Institute (RDI), based in Seattle, Washington, is a non-profit organization of land law and policy experts that helps poor farmers in developing countries gain ownership of land, thus alleviating poverty on a massive scale. RDI has worked with...
SVDP Australia Practices What It Preaches
SYDNEY, July 7, 2007 (smh.com.au): The St Vincent de Paul Society will give its employees a $30-a-week pay rise because it regards the $10.26 awarded by the Australian Fair Pay Commission this week as inadequate. The society's state president, John O'Neill, said...
Pope Invites Youth To Sydney For Transformation
The Pope told the youth to bring their friends who are searching for truth. "Some of you have friends with little real purpose in their lives, perhaps caught up in a futile search for endless new experiences," he said. "Bring them to World Youth Day too! In fact, I...
Church at An Environmental CrossRoad
John Allen writes...Catholic environmentalism these days seems to be an instinct in search of a cause. One can find impressive traces of awareness, from John Paul II's 1990 call for "ecological conversion," to grass-roots initiatives such as the Genesis Farm [1]...
Holy See Urges Globalized Rights
GENEVA, JULY 3, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The globalization of the economy and communication should be matched by the globalization of human rights, says the Holy See. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi made this comment in a recent address to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva....
Benedict Praises Blessed Frassati (SVDP)
Benedict XVI offered the example of Blessed Piergiorgio Frassat, a student and sportsman who died at age 24. (As noted in the previous post he was a member of the SVDP> At the end of today's general audience, the Pope greeted young people, the sick and newlyweds....
Eucharist and Service of the Poor – Bl. Frassati
Wednesday, July 4, marks the Feast Day of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, a young member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul early in twentieth century Italy. Blessed Pier joined the Society when he was seventeen years old in 1919, and remained an active member the...
Gratitude For This Day
Br. David Steindl-Rast has a beautiful video reflection on gratefulness (link no longer available at this address) that is very appropriate food for thought on this Independence Day USA. (It also serves as an example of how YouTube.com can be a vehicle of ministry.)
Millenium Development Goals in Jeopardy
By Laura MacInnis GENEVA, July 2 (Reuters) - The world will struggle to meet the Millennium Development Goals on eradicating extreme poverty unless rich countries boost their international aid budgets, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. Presenting a...
July in the Vincentian Family
July 4 - Feast of Blessed Pier-Giorgio Frassati, Member of the SSVDP July 6 - Baptism of Marguerite Naseau, first Daughter of Charity July 16 - First Sisters of St. Martha arrived in Antigonish. 1900 July 18-19 - First Apparition to St. Catherine Laboure 1830 July 19...
