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Responding to the devastation of the flooding

Catholics agencies and their social service partners here in Eastern Missouri have been reaching out to people affected by flooding in the northeastern part of the St Louis Archdiocese. The Mississippi and some tributaries hit record or near-record levels in St. Charles, Lincoln and other counties to the north in June and early July. As the waters receded, an outreach to its victims began.

See full story in St Louis Review Online.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.

Emily Hanson, Chair, Catholic Democrats of Missouri


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