by sjs | Aug 4, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Low-wage workers in the United States are gripped by increasing financial insecurity as they inch along an economic tightrope made riskier by pervasive job losses and rising prices. Many struggle to pay for life’s basics — housing, food and health...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 1, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Vincentian priest Fr. Joe Fitzgerald offers a website giving voice to the concerns of the Ngobe people in Panama. Complete with YouTube channel he gives voice to the voiceless using simple internet pages.He writes, With a poverty level of 97%, the Ngöbe are truly...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 3, 2008 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
John Holbrook “uses his skills as a photographic artist to paint film portraits of the poor, the disadvantaged, the homeless, and the mentally or physically challenged. He portrays his subjects as saints and patriarchs, giving them names taken from scripture....
by John Freund, CM | Jun 22, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Internationally known for his innovative approaches to poverty, Vincentian priest Fr. Pedro Opeka, CM, has released a dramatic reminder of the continuing plight one billion children under the age of 18. Fr. Opeka is known as the Apostle to the Garbage People in...
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...
