by sjs | Jun 17, 2008 | Church, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In a message to the U.N. Food Summit, Pope Benedict called hunger and malnutrition “unacceptable in a world that, in reality, possesses production levels, resources and sufficient knowledge to put an end to these dramas and their consequences.” Given the...
by sjs | Jun 15, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In Ireland, the SSVDP reports that middle class couples with mortgages are the fastest growing group seeking charitable assistance and advice. Rising energy costs and food bills mean that “financial difficulties are spilling out and crossing socio-economic...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 12, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
“When one is engaged in face-to-face charity and journeying with people the wider issues inevitably arise.” Speaking a meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Society Bob McKeon who has lived in the inner city by choice for 30 years sees how one thing leads to...
by annaread | Jun 11, 2008 | Daughters of Charity, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
St. John’s Bread and Life soup kitchen in Brooklyn, NY, founded 26 years ago by Daughter of Charity Bernadette Szymczak (d. 1998) and still served by the Daughters and a Sister of Charity, is featured in today’s New York Times. Technology has an important...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 8, 2008 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Missions inter gentes, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
We have just received notice of an exciting new blog devoted to Political Charity and Vincentian Formation. The commission on Charism and Cultures and the Asia Pacific Regional Formators have been grappling with these concepts for over a decade and have now mounted a...
