CIDSE demands "stimulus package" for the Millennium Development Goals (July 2010)

Posted by rbw on Tue, Jul 20, 2010

By: CIDSE

In the lead up to the MDG Review Summit 2010, to be held in September 2010, CIDSE releases a position paper that calls on leaders to agree on a "stimulus package" for the MDGs.

Catholic Social Thought: Another World is Possible

Posted by gwp on Tue, Sep 29, 2009

By: James E. Hug, S.J.
Source: Center of Concern

Remarks and powerpoint presented at the seminar, “G-20 Summit: Promise or Peril,” at The Center for the Study of Catholic Social Thought, Duquesne University on September 21, 2009.

Father Hug contends that the demonstrators who will be in the streets of Pittsburgh this week are just the latest incarnation of gatherings of people from around the world who have been traveling to meetings of heads of state like the G-8 and the G-20 or at intergovernmental meetings like the UN Conferences of the late 1980s and the 1990s, WTO Ministerial meetings or the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank for the last 20 years.

Through these years, the organization and communications of the groups have become stronger and more sophisticated. Their message has become clearer, more focused, and more urgent. They want the leaders gathered to hear that the policies these political elites are furthering and the ways they are governing the world are destructive. Those policies are creating or contributing to growing poverty and hunger at the same time as they are enriching a very small percentage of the world’s people in a way that is unbearable. And they are threatening the survival of the planet.

Their message, loud and insistent, is “Another World is Possible!”

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Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time [c]

Posted by ef on Mon, Aug 30, 2010

By: John Bucki, SJ
Source: Center of Concern

Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time [c]

September 5, 2010

Readings
Wisdom 9:13-18b
Philemon 9-10, 12-17
Luke 14:25-33

Calendar
September 6: Labor Day in the United States
September 8: Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary
September 8: at sunset, the start of Rosh Hashanah or the Jewish New Year
September 11: Anniversary of the Terrorist Attacks of 2001

Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time [c]

Posted by ef on Wed, Aug 25, 2010

By: John Bucki, SJ
Source: Center of Concern

Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time [c]
August 29, 2010

Readings
Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29
Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a
Luke 14:1, 7-14

Calendar
August 26: Women’s Equality Day [The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote.]
August 27: One hundredth anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa
August 28: Martin Luther King Jr. gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963.

Twenty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time [c]

Posted by rbw on Fri, Aug 13, 2010

Twenty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time [c]
August 22, 2010

Readings
Isaiah 66:18-21
Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13
Luke 13:22-30

Calendar
August 23: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition
August 26: Women’s Equality Day [The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote.]

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Center Focus, Issue 185 - Summer 2010

Posted by rbw on Thu, Aug 12, 2010

Source: Center of Concern

In this issue:

Today's Mission of Hope -- Jim Hug, SJ
The Ignored Crisis --Julia Wartenberg
Seeing the World Anew, Part 4 --Maria Riley, OP
Spotlight on: The Interns
Development Goals Summit Can Make a Difference, Crises Notwithstanding --Aldo Caliari
Googling, Tweeting and Tuning In --Sr. Katherine Feely, SND