by John Freund, CM | Jun 8, 2008 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Missions inter gentes, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
We have just received notice of an exciting new blog devoted to Political Charity and Vincentian Formation. The commission on Charism and Cultures and the Asia Pacific Regional Formators have been grappling with these concepts for over a decade and have now mounted a...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 4, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
As the food crisis grows, a report finds four billion people are excluded from the rule of law the UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor makes a global call to make legal empowerment a key pillar of the anti-poverty agenda. A blog on Asset-building, states...
by annaread | May 23, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Stories of poverty “do not put us in real contact with real people,” writes Barbara Ryan, who is president of a State Council of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Australia. The 2008 Winter Appeal “is about getting in touch with real...
by annaread | May 22, 2008 | Evangelization, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A graduate student in the School of Public Service Management at DePaul University reflects on what she saw when she and other students traveled to the Philippines. “Listening to the poor,” she writes, “is key to finding solutions that can meet their...
by sjs | May 17, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Every day, Catholic Charities agencies see the faces of the poor across America, and we know firsthand how race and poverty are interconnected,†say Rev. Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA. In 2006, the poverty rate for African Americans was 24.3%...
