by John Freund, CM | Mar 16, 2009 | Featured, Formation, Justice and Peace, Social, Vincentian Family
That is the opinion of Sr. Margaret Fitzpatrick, SC in this weeks installment in the Lent for Systemic Change series. She is a Sister of Charity and President of St. Thomas Aquinas College in New York. She points out how the book can be used in various settings as a...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 16, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. The story of Brazil’s fourth largest city Belo Horizonte, a city of 2.5 million people, once had 11 % of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 15, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
The keynote speakers at the North American Vincentian Family Gathering April 16-19, Allison Boisvert and Eddie Friel present insights into different but deeply inter-related dimensions of “systemic change†– the personal and structural. This week we feature...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 9, 2009 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
In this second Lenten podcast series Roger Playwin, Executive Director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society USA, offers his reflections on the “Systemic Change” thrust of the Vincentian Vamily. Podcast
by John Freund, CM | Mar 1, 2009 | Featured, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
The Commission for Promoting Systemic Change is committed to a Lenten series on Famvin. As part of that series, they have had a comic strip presentation prepared about the notion of systemic change and various successful systemic change projects. Fr. Robert Maloney...
