Author of the following books:

Land Lords of the World
A World Held Hostage by Debt
What Bankers Don't Want You to Know
What's Goding On Here


Rev. Gondek My name is Joseph Adam Gondek. I was born of immigrant Polish parents, Albert and Zofia Palka Gondek, on July 28, 1911. With our parents raising a family of eleven children on a farm during the Great Depression of 1929-33, when all they could get for potatoes was five cents a bushel and a cow sold for ten dollars. I learned what it is to be poor and hungry. Nevertheless we were all proud, paid our taxes, trying to make it without public assistance, of which there was very little. I have seen abject poverty in countries like Mexico and Egypt and have myself not known where I would find shelter for the night.

During fifty-eight years of ministry as a Catholic priest, I have dealt with the needs, problems, and sufferings of thousands of people. In my concern for social issues I have worked with the government bureaucracy of HUD for fourteen years as chairman of the local housing commission and have witnessed the utter waste and in-fighting that goes on when government tries to run things that belong in the private sector or on the local level.

This work is an act of love for God, our country, and all humankind, especially the billions in need of love and compassion, throughout the world. May this tiny ripple of love be multiplied millions of times with your assistance and added to that torrent of hope Kennedy wished to see.

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