by Beth | May 11, 2006 | Justice and Peace
CANBERRA – Welfare organisations, the Opposition and the Family First party have criticised the Budget as a pot of gold for the rich that ignores Australians on struggle street. While the Government’s latest round of tax cuts have been applauded widely,...
by Beth | May 10, 2006 | Justice and Peace
Local art students focused their creative minds on the impoverished to create pieces based on photographs of people eating meals at St. Vincent de Paul Dining Room. The top 20 works in “Windows to the Soul: Putting a Human Face on Poverty in Marin County”...
by Beth | May 10, 2006 | Justice and Peace
The St Vincent de Paul Society has cautioned Australians against taking comfort from the short-term gains in last night’s Budget, with its spokesperson John Falzon suggesting that the Budget failed to “identify and address the areas of market failure and...
by Beth | May 3, 2006 | Justice and Peace
Sr. Maureen Tinkler, DC invites members of the Vincentian Family in Britain to add a Christian Vincentian perspective to the debate in the House of Lords over an assisted dying bill.Dear Members of the Vincentian Family, If you click on the first link below you can...
by Beth | Apr 28, 2006 | Justice and Peace
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Several U.S. cardinals had a busy morning in Washington April 28 urging humane and compassionate immigration legislation as the Senate prepared to debate immigration reform. With them was Vincentian Father David M. O’Connell, president...
