by John Freund, CM | Dec 7, 2013 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Most people think of homelessness in terms of Steve Buscemi’s character from Big Daddy — creepy, potentially crazy people reaping the benefits of a lifetime of bad decisions. Well, in the summer and fall of 2009 in a little town in Montana, I was...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 6, 2013 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Test your poverty knowledge with our Poverty Quiz. Take the Quiz. found on the website of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development See their other POVERTY RESOURCES Audio and Video Presentation Support Education Center Grades K-5 Grades 6-12 Adult Education EPIC...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 1, 2013 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Which comes first? The chicken or the egg? Some research about an analogous question Does low intelligence cause poverty or does poverty cause low intelligence move in the the direction of the latter. Another article puts it this way… “What do Poverty and...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 7, 2013 | Daughters of Charity, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
“For Louise de Marillac the Church is not some distant entity or a hierarchical institution to which she must submit herself. All Christians are members of the mystical body and each individual has a concrete function to perform in order to accomplish a common...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 21, 2013 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops critiqued federal budget proposals for their suggested cuts to social aid programs, which they said would harm the poor and vulnerable. “The moral measure of this budget debate is not which party wins or which...
