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The Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St. John's University in Jamaica, New York is an academic center which:
- promotes a worldview based on the life and teaching of St. Vincent de Paul;
- conducts and disseminates research on poverty, social justice, and religion and science;
- connects the University with the Church and the community through service and educational programs.
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Deng's 2007 Poverty Conference Keynote Address
Recorded at
5th Biennial Vincentian Chair of Social Justice Conference: The Just and Moral Society: From Ideal to Reality (conference)
Saturday, October 13, 2007
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
During This Session
(part of our Poverty Conferences series)
Food for Thought
A Catholic university is called to become an evermore effective instrument of cultural progress for individuals as well as for society. Included among its research activities, therefore, will be a study of serious contemporary problems in areas such as the dignity of human life, the promotion of justice for all, the quality of personal and family life, the protection of nature, the search for peace and political stability, a more just sharing in the world’s resources and a new economic and political order that will better serve the human community at a national and international level.
Pope John Paul II,
Ex Corde Ecclesiae (32)
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"My work as a Vincentian Research Fellow enhances my research in Mexico and my teaching because I am compelled to confront questions about the persistence of poverty in the past and present and what can be done to relieve poverty for the urban poor from the Vincentian perspective of charity and justice."
Jaime E.
Rodriguez
Class of 2006
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