November 2011
U.S. Military Presence in Uganda (Oct. 14) The Obama administration announced deployment of 100 military advisers to Uganda and surrounding countries to help dismantle the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)...
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The Gritty Reality was the theme of the 2011 Ignatian Family Teach-In which drew over 1100 to Georgetown University Nov 12-14. The theme is attributed from a line in Fr. Kolvenbach’s Santa Clara...
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Fred Kammer: “Politics Drive Anti-Tax movements and Low Income families suffer” is the assessment in the lead article from JustSouth Quarterly written by the former New Orleans Provincial. His analysis...
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Republic of Southern Sudan (ROSS) Becomes the World’s Newest Country Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly and peacefully to become independent in January, 2011 and Independence Day finally came on...
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Eastern Africa Hunger Crisis (UPDATE September 1, 2011) As the seasonal drought was upgraded into a famine in late July, two Jesuit initiated strategies were announced in response to this crisis...
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Ecology Supplements Download the special report on ecology Healing a Broken Worldcompiled by the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat and referenced by Fr. General in his letter On Ecology (September...
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“A Setback not a Defeat” Archbishop José Gómez characterized the December 21st Senate vote on the DREAM Act, which fell five votes short of overcoming a filibuster. The DREAM Act would have provided...
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Wisconsin Labor News Here are several updates on the impasse regarding the rights of state workers to organize in Wisconsin. On Feb. 16, the Wisconsin Catholic Conference issued the statement Regarding...
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Pedro Arrupe Video Recollections Fr. Vincent O’Keefe, former General Counselor to Fr. Arrupe, was videotaped several years ago by Wisconsin Jesuit Frs. J.J. O’Leary and Jim McDermott about his...
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You may have heard that President Obama attended the Esperanza National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast this morning (June 19) and invoked scriptural guidance of “love thy neighbor” to push the need for...
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