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Catholic Worker Perspective on Advent 2003
by Beth | Dec 14, 2003 | Justice and Peace
In his initable fashion Robert Waldrop has written an Advent Letter fro the perspective of a Catholic Worker.Visit his reflections at http://www.justpeace.org/2003adventletter.htm.Many of you will recall his web site Just Peace which is still a veritable gold mind of...
Fr. Ron Ramson, CM writes of the Beatification of Rosalie Rendu
by Beth | Dec 14, 2003 | Vincentian Family
Pope John Paul II beatified Sister Rosalie Rendu, a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, on Sunday, November 9, 2003. Sister Rosalie spent 54 years working in Paris with the poorest of the poor (1802 – 1856). Twenty-one Vincentians from across the United...
SVDP Western Australia – Annual Report
by Beth | Dec 13, 2003 | Vincentian Family
The National website of the SSVDP in Australia contains a link to the regions annual report.Mon 18 November 2002 Facing considerable budget deficit and looming service reductions, St Vinnies WA (inc) benefited from it's new, highly efficient fundraising and cost...
St. Vincent de Paul council fosters charity’s deep purpose
by Beth | Dec 13, 2003 | Vincentian Family
12/11/2003 Ed Langlois (Portland Catholic Sentinel) Mention St. Vincent de Paul, and most Oregon Catholics think of the volunteers who operate the parish food bank or the thrift stores in Portland and several other Oregon towns. But behind the emergency services,...
Canadian National President Reports on National SSVDP
by Beth | Dec 12, 2003 | Vincentian Family
Dear Vincentian Friends It is now about a week and a half after the close of the 34th AGA of the National Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and I would like to offer the following reflection, comments etc.. - From all reports, this meeting was a huge...
Icon Depicting Vocation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida
by Beth | Dec 12, 2003 | Vincentian Family
A young Benedictine monk has created an icon to represent the vocation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida.The icon is very effectively presented at their web site http://www.suoredellacarita.org/english/english_gen.htm
Effectiveness of Consumer Boycotts Against Unethical Firms
by Beth | Dec 11, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
According to the Indepentent News of Britain... A new generation of consumer activists is emerging in Britain, with more than one in two people boycotting the products of companies that they regard as unethical, according to a study. Independent Home | News | Sport |...
Irish SVDP spends 100,000 Euros per day fighting poverty
by Beth | Dec 11, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
With this and other stories Deborah Payne documents how the Voice of the Poor is being heard around the world.She writes.... Dear Friends, VOP is alive and well in Ireland as seen by news releases that can be found on the voice of the poor website at...
Kofi Annan's Speaks to 12,000 World Summit On Infotechnology and the Poor
by Beth | Dec 10, 2003 | Social
Information Summit Opens With Call To Fight Poverty - ""Over 70 percent of all Internet users live in the world's richest countries, where only 16 percent of the globe's population lives," Secretary General Yoshio Utsumi of the International Telecommunication Union,...
Is Lack of Technology an ''Underlying Cause'' of Poverty?
by Beth | Dec 10, 2003 | Social
For a representative sampling of 7 positions (pro and con) taken on a UN conference in Geneva going on at the moment . These are particularly interesting in light of Pope John Paul's challenge to the Vincentian Family to search for "underlying causes and long term...