Cardinal rallies Catholics to protest at G8 summit

Apparently undeterred by the controversy surrounding Bob Geldof’s call for a million people to descend on the G8 summit, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor is urging Catholics in England and Wales to mobilise and join him at the Make Poverty History rally in...

Cardinal Lobbies Europe to End Poverty

Cardinal Rodríguez of Honduras was in England last week to lobby for more aid for Africa – because ‘charity has to be global’. Isabel de Bertodano went to meet him GIVEN that Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, comes from one of...

St Vincent de Paul warns of tax net trap

June 02, 2005 14:49 The Society of St Vincent de Paul today warned the Government of the danger of minimum wage earners falling back into the tax net… The minimum wage was raised from €7 an hour to €7.65 an hour on May 1. This increase is subject to tax at 20%....

Action Alert – US Conference of Bishops

The poverty of billions of men and women is “the one issue that most challenges our human and Christian consciences.” Pope John Paul II, World Day of Peace, 2000The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services are urging you to join with...
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