by John Freund, CM | Dec 25, 2009 | Church
“The story of the shepherds is included in the Gospel for a reason. They show us the right way to respond to the message that we too have received. What is it that these first witnesses of God’s incarnation have to tell us?” Full text Coverage of the...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 17, 2009 | Church, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Calling hunger “the most cruel and concrete sign of poverty,” Pope Benedict XVI today told a special summit of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization that “opulence and waste are no longer acceptable when the tragedy of hunger is assuming ever greater...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Occasional famvin contributor, Susan Stabile, offers perspective on this issue in her Creo en Dios post for today. “First, what we are about is God’s business, not ours. What we do, we do in cooperation with and in support of God’s desire for the world, not our...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 11, 2009 | Church, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Education for Justice has produced a very useful map or outline of the pope’s recent encyclical. Caritas in Veritate (pdf). See also John Allen’s shorter list of the some of the key points…Pope proposes a Christ humanism… Benedict says the...
by John Freund, CM | May 21, 2009 | Church
Benedict XVI is encouraging a “positive” use of communication technologies so that friendships created through them can help make the world a better place. The Pope said this today at the end of the general audience when he spoke in English about this...
