Father Paul Hansen of ISARC and General Superior at the March 11th vigil in Toronto. Photo: Tara Kainer, Justice & Peace OfficeBY JAMIE SWIFT A band of two dozen Kingston vigil keepers and friends traveled by bus to Toronto on March 11. Our goal was to participate...
Scene from the 13th Anniversary Silent Vigil held on November 13th, 2008.“The last thing poverty respects is age. Young, old or in between, being poor erases smiles from our faces.”— quote posted on a sign at the 13th anniversary of the Silent Vigil The Ontario...
General Superior Sr. Pauline Lally at the 13th Anniversary of the Silent Vigil.BY GENERAL SUPERIOR SISTER PAULINE LALLY Twelve years ago when I returned to Kingston, after a two year stint out of the country, I soon discovered that I had come back to a very different...
Bonita McCourt of the Salvation Army Community Services speaks during the October luncheon.In Kingston you can order an $11 poutine with braised veal cheeks. Or lunch on truffled frites with shaved parmesan and aioli. Or you can visit Vinnie’s, the St. Vincent de Paul...
A high profile social activist joined other vigil-keepers at the weekly silent vigil at Kingston’s City Hall on Friday May 18, 2007. Raised in Kingston, nurse Cathy Crowe specializes in advocacy for the homeless in Canada. She has won fame as a street nurse working...
BY SISTER PEGGY FLANAGAN As I recall, Jesus of Nazareth had a soft spot in his heart for fishermen. Perhaps he still does. Oliver Gerald Doyle, who died on the second of May, was a follower of Jesus, but not just because he loved to go fishing. Oliver also took...
General Superior elect Sr. Pauline Lally spoke during the Mayor’s Task Force on Poverty held in Kingston April 30, 2007. The speech is reprinted here. In the 19th century the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul set about working on behalf of the orphaned, the...
Article reprinted with permission from Kingston This Week. BY LYNN REES LAMBERT Local News – Friday, April 20, 2007 Updated @ 8:21:28 AM The provincial government has made progress on the push to wipe out poverty over the last three years, but it is a long way from...
A sizeable crowd showed up to Memorial Hall on May 24th to take part in an Inter-Faith Gathering to discuss Religious Faiths and the Poor: Call and Response.Those who have faith and do righteous deeds, – they are the best of creatures. Qur’an, 98:7 A sizeable crowd...
Tara Kainer joins the staff at Providence Motherhouse as the executive assistant to the Co-Director of the Justice and Peace OfficeWho knows how we become the people we are? I can’t say for sure what happened to turn my attention to social justice, or why I’m...
