by John Freund, CM | Jun 19, 2012 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Sister Germaine Price, representing the Company of the Daughters of Charity at the United Nations, reports on the international site of the Daughters of Charity  about the following activities in the UN in New York: Over the last two decades, there have been many...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 8, 2012 | Vincentian Family
While powerful lobbies work to influence legislators and legislation who speak with and for the those who are on the margins in a world that seems to forgot a basic concept of Christianity – the “common good”. The national SVDP USA site  writes,...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 4, 2012 | Vincentian Family
And the figure is bound to grow since the annual Vinnies CEO Sleepout will not take place until June 21. 2012. There are more than 100,000 Australians who sleep rough each night of the year. Just under half of these are women; a quarter of these are under the age of...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 2, 2012 | Vincentian Family
The St Vincent de Paul Society has joined the Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations (ACCER) in calling on Fair Work Australia for an increase in safety net wage rates and the national minimum wage for the nation’s 1.4 million lowest paid workers reports...
by John Freund, CM | May 18, 2012 | Justice and Peace
“To place these two individuals side by side can seem rather strange. To say the least they were not contemporaries. What could these two very different individuals possibly have in common?” For some insightful reflections on what they have in common visit...
