by Cecilia Blanford | Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a stranger in one of the communities of your land. You must pay him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for he is needy and sets his life on it; else he will cry to God...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, Richard R. Troxell spoke about Looking Up at the Bottom Line at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in the heart of Washington, D.C. As we know, and now the attendees of this event know, his message is that the Universal Living...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
It used to be that Southern California was the predictor. Whatever the folks in LA were doing, the rest of the country would be doing it pretty soon. Maybe that tendency still applies. In the case of homeless dumping, let’s hope not. Some deny that there is...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here, in no particular order, are a few contributing factors to becoming homeless. 1. The earthquake/tsunami combination is a guaranteed creator of homelessness on a massive scale. Live in a place like Japan, Haiti, or California, and sooner or later,...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
It’s hard to say anything negative about shelters when municipal and state budgets everywhere are being cut. The last thing you want to do is give some bureaucrat the excuse to decide, “Shelters can be awful places, so let’s stop funding them.” And no one wants to...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Maria Foscarinis is founder and executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. (Her complete biography is found at the NLCHP website.) She calls for a commitment to the principle that “in a country as wealthy as ours,...
