by John Freund, CM | Dec 17, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Santiago Barquín, CM writes, “Poverty, misery or want is a phantom with a thousand faces that vents its fury primarily among the majority of people who live in what is referred to as the Third World and among the pockets of poor people living on the fringes of...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 16, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Going behind the headlines… Yesterday, Newark Mayor Cory Booker finished his widely publicized “SNAP Challenge,” during which he subsisted solely on meals he could prepare on an average week’s worth of SNAP (formerly food stamps) benefits – which works out to...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 15, 2012 | Vincentian Family
Making your life count. This video from the St. Vincent dePaul Society puts the question out there. Your heart beats 100,000 times each day. Put your hand on your heart. Feel it beating. That’s your life clock. Someday its going to stop. A lot of things are...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 13, 2012 | Vincentian Family
St Vincent de Paul Society will provide a new service to rapidly rehouse the homeless who frequently use temporary accommodation services in western Sydney. The NSW government will release $1 million to St Vincent de Paul Society over the next year with an aim to...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 12, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Meeting people in poverty face-to-face is the fundamental first action of Vincentians, as members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul are called. Strengthened by prayer and reflection, they go two by two to relieve human need, always beginning with a personal visit....
