Posts Tagged ‘solidarity’
Rerum Novarum and the Catholic legacy of Economic Justice
The current budget battle between the two dominant American political parties involves two familiar, age-old, disagreements on how to provide prosperity for as many people as possible. From the political forces on the right we have a firm belief that economic growth happens through a free and unregulated market system. This tradition comes to us ... Read more
UNITED AGAINST HUNGER 2010: Part 2. Analysis and Actions
(The International Passionist JPIC Commission offers this second resource as a process that accompanies the prayer and reflection resource that we sent earlier. With these combined resource we are hoping for a massive congregational response to the issue of world hunger. No community should feel itself outside of this effort. Each community should find a ... Read more
Solidarity vs. Subsidiarity
There are two pertinent “principles” that the church has proposed within its social teachings which at first glance may appear contradictory: subsidiarity and solidarity. When the Catholic Church started promulgating its social teaching with Pope Leo XIII in 1891 priority for the social order was given to subsidiarity. However, in the recent development of social teachings ... Read more
Update from Fr. Rick Frechette, CP from Haiti
Two networks have discovered the important work of Fr. Rick Frechette, C.P. in the midst of the devastation of the earthquake in Haiti. They each point to the very touching reality of his care for children. It is no accident that he is there. On Friday January 15 Fr. Rick sent this note explaining his current presence ... Read more
In Passion for Justice | Tagged Fr. Rick Frechette, Haiti, Passionist, solidarity
Our World, Our Future: Solidarity in Vietnam
The Australian Passionist community has a young adult immersion pilgrimage that went to the Philippins and Vietnam. Recently we shared one of the young adult experiences in the Philippins. This week, fellow pilgrim Justin Wenham will share on his experience in Vietnam from an article that he wrote to his school magazine: At times, all of us have ... Read more
In Passion for Justice | Tagged Australia, immersion pilgrimage, Passionist, solidarity, Vietnam
Our World, Our Future: (Solidarity in the Philippines)
The Australian Passionist Community offers a school pilgrimage to the communities and ministries in the Philippines and Vietnam. The following reflection comes from Justin Wenham who is a student at the Christian Brothers College (CBC) in Adelaide, Australia. As the reflecting student explains: “The purpose of the Pilgrimage is to explore and share how local people experience ... Read more
Thanksgiving reflection for the Passionist social ministries in Asia
Last week the Passionist communities in Asia sent their superiors and delegates to India to discuss a matter of regional governance for the Religious community. At an international level the Passionist community is going through a process of reconfiguration. This reconfiguration aims to reorganize the community in adapting to the challenges of globalization and to ... Read more
United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, New York, June 24-26, 2009
By Fr. Kevin Dance, CP When the governments of the world met in Doha, Qatar in December 2008 to review progress made in the area of financing for development, the first rumblings of financial chaos could be felt. It was decided that the spreading financial and economic global crisis called for a follow up conference ... Read more
XX Sunday of Ordinary Time
Readings: Proverbs 9:1-6 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58 Thoughts for Your Consideration: by Hugo Esparza, CP This week we are invited to attend God’s Feast. This should give us all a great sense of honor in again being reminded that God continues to call us into a mystical loving relationship with him. A relationship that will ... Read more
XIX Sunday In Ordinary Time
Readings: 1 Kings 19:4-8 Ephesians 4:30—5:2 John 6:41-51 Thoughts For Your Consideration: by Hugo Esparza, CP During one of the hardest nights of my work with taxi-drivers last year, I sat discouraged, hopeless and exhausted with my team of organizers. The group of primarily East-African and Middle-Eastern, Muslim, Cab-drivers had decided to go on strike ... Read more
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