by John Freund, CM | May 15, 2012 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The U.S. bishops’ leader on domestic justice repeated his calls for Congress to resist proposed budget reductions that would cut funding to programs that help the most vulnerable members of society. “A just framework for future budgets cannot rely on...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 14, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
An article in US Catholic raises the question of competing visions of Catholic Social Teaching as reflected in approaches to the national budget. Another article on Faith and Public Life raises the question of priorities in terms of energy expended on various issue...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 24, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Most of the world’s newspapers are running features on how to survive in a bad economy. But I have seen no articles on “How to survive on less than $2 a day”. Yet over 2.7 billion people in the world live on $2 or less a day. How do they do it? How...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 5, 2011 | Vincentian Family
“You don’t create a smart and confident Australia by taking to people with the stick” St Vincent de Paul Society National Council CEO, Dr John Falzon, responded to the 2011 Federal Budget with the following statement: “A harsher welfare compliance regime and the...
by John Freund, CM | May 26, 2011 | Justice and Peace
More than two dozen bishops from mainline Protestant denominations sent a letter to Congress today denouncing proposed Republican budget cuts as “morally indefensible. This is on the heels of letters from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a...
