by John Freund, CM | Dec 19, 2012 | Justice and Peace
Protect Those Living in Poverty from the “Fiscal Cliff”. There are many powerful lobbies in Washington. But who is lobbying for  the “least of my brothers and sisters”? Sheila Gilbert, President of the National Council of the SVDP USA, writes.....
by John Freund, CM | Dec 18, 2012 | Vincentian Family
A Place Like This! a powerful  90 second trailer “about a place where homeless never means helpless…” The St Vincent de Paul Society has teamed up with the prominent Australian agency George Patterson Y&R Sydney to produce a documentary offering...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 10, 2012 | Vincentian Family
The Rubik’s Challenge, organised by Depaul UK to benefit the homeless, was smashed on Thursday 22nd November when 1,414 school-children twisted their way into the Guinness World Record books by solving 80’s phenomenon, the Rubik’s Cube, at the SAME TIME in the...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 10, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Poverty & Homelessness Action Week: get your church organization working to Close the Gap! From the folks atPoverty and Homelessess.. Poverty & Homelessness Action Week 2013 will run from 26 January to 3 February. We organise the Week jointly each year with...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 6, 2012 | Justice and Peace
 John L. Allen Jr.  writes a brief dispatch from Denmark on Catholic activism on the death penalty. Rumors of the death of the church’s passion for social justice have been greatly exaggerated, at least to judge by a high-profile international conference in Rome...
