by John Freund, CM | Oct 5, 2011 | Justice and Peace
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) is urging participants of this weeks’ National Tax Forum to avoid divisive and fruitless arguments over whether we should tax consumption or income, and to focus instead on practical solutions to the challenges of...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 26, 2011 | Vincentian Family
No Time Like Now- the Life and Times of Frederic Ozanam. This video puts Frederic squarely in the life and times of a country facing massive social change. In doing so it presents a side of Frederic that is perhaps too little appreciated. There is much food for...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 8, 2011 | Vincentian Family
He wrote to his his elder brother, Father Alphonse: “The priests must give up their little bourgeois parishes: their flocks are an elite in the midst of a vast population that they do not know…” and again: “You are not carrying out your true...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 4, 2011 | Vincentian Family
We have big shoes to fill! Sister MarÃa Pilar López, DC recently laid out how Vincent, without using the words was well in advance of the Church’s social teaching. Frederic, whose feast we celebrate September 9, influenced the magisterium in the words and...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 9, 2011 | Congregation of the Mission, Vincentian Family
Frederic Ozanam and Fr. Etienne, sometimes referred to as the second founder of the Congregation, took quite contrasting views toward social change and renewal. Fr.Jaime Correra CM writes that with regard to social change “(one has)Â the painful impression that...
