by Beth | Dec 23, 2005 | News
Brother David Steindl-Rast of the Gratefulness site that “It’s a good time to ask: When and where did you last discover the holy?” If our 13,077 friends who receive this newsletter each offered a response to that question, we would surely receive...
by Beth | Dec 23, 2005 | Church
CINCINNATI, Ohio, DEC. 14, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Modern Catholics have an obligation to be well informed, says the chairman of one of the largest newspaper firms in the United States. William Burleigh, chairman of E.W. Scripps Company, retired from active management in...
by Beth | Dec 22, 2005 | Vincentian Family
Jamshedpur, Dec. 14: The year is 1980. Two young nuns (Sisters of Charity), from two different parts of India, travel five kilometres everyday ignoring all dangers through dense forests to reach Birsanagar, where a handful of students wait for them in a makeshift...
by Beth | Dec 22, 2005 | Justice and Peace
Sister Therese Bangert, SCL, a chaplain for the Kansas City Kan., police and fire departments, has fought against the death penalty for years. This week, she drove to Washington D.C., to sit in on the U.S. Supreme Court as justices heard arguments on two death penalty...
by Beth | Dec 21, 2005 | Justice and Peace
The Vincentian Family Coordinating Group commissioned a Task Force to explore the tempting offer of Dennis Holtschneider, CM to establish a National Center for the Visibility of the Poor at DePaul University in Chicago. The group is composed of 15 members from various...
