by John Freund, CM | Dec 22, 2012 | Justice and Peace
The chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a joint statement Dec. 21 stressing the need for gun control, improved services for the mentally ill and a critical examination of the violence in today’s movies, videos and...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 14, 2012 | Evangelization, Technology: Issues and Uses
Excerpts from a Catholic News Service article “US bishops, Catholic bloggers discuss how tweets, blogs help evangelize” reporting on a nearly three-hour session, the group of two dozen bishops and even more bloggers talked about the challenges in using...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 24, 2012 | Vincentian Family
“This is the Church I want to be a part of. This is the Church that was envisioned by Vatican II.”… “In order to proclaim the gift of faith and strengthen the Church’s renewal, there are three moments of encounter and two pathways I consider crucial for...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 12, 2012 | Church, News
The Australian National eConference on Vatican II – an Event of Grace, was held at Pennant Hills, a northern suburb of Sydney, on October 10, The eConference was sponsored by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, the Broken Bay Institute and John Garratt...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 24, 2012 | Vincentian Family
“Long before there was such a thing as Australia there were families who lived here, people who cared for each other and the earth, people for whom the world was a deeply spiritual place, people who loved to tell stories about the things that really mattered to...
