Tag: solidarity
A Joint Catholic-Jewish Statement on the Global Economic Crisis
March 30, 2012
The Vatican Information Service reports today on the joint statement of the Bilateral Commission of the Delegations of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with Jews, which met this week in Rome. The 11th gathering of the commission focused on Religious perspectives on the current financial crisis: vision [...]
Pope Benedict XVI: Solidarity is the Driving Force for Integral Development
December 15, 2011
Vatican Information Service reports today on remarks Pope Benedict XVI made to non-resident ambassadors in which he spoke about solidarity as a mainstay for the integral development of peoples. Both solidarity and integral human development are central to the Mission of Catholic Relief Services. “In our time the unity of the human family is an undeniable [...]
Pope Benedict XVI: The Market Must Never Neglect Solidarity
December 12, 2011
From Vatican Information Service: VATICAN CITY, 10 DEC 2011 (VIS) – This morning in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received representatives from the Confederation of Italian Cooperatives, and from the Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks, who were accompanied by their ecclesiastical assistant Msgr. Adriano Vincenzi. In his remarks to them the Pope dwelt on the [...]
The Legacy of 9/11: A Deeper Faith, Hope and Love for Others
September 9, 2011
BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 9, 2011-Ken Hackett, President of Catholic Relief Services, today sent this letter to his CRS colleagues and friends of the agency around the world on Sunday’s commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. On that Tuesday morning 10 years ago when the jetliners crashed into the towers of the [...]