FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

The Internet Public Library site has a list of newspapers by country that might be of interest to famvin visitors.Internet Public Library List of Newspapers

WASHINGTON (CNS) — As 2006 came to an end, capital punishment was making headlines for what it is not doing: overall declining use, waning support and recent challenges at the state levels about how it is conducted.
Shifting public support for capital punishment is a “ray of good news” for Frank McNeirney, co-founder of Catholics Against [...]

The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul invite you to become a Prayer friend who brings HOPE.To become a Prayer Friend all you need to do is:
1. Pray daily for those whose lives are at risk from the threat of road accidents, alcoholism, drug abuse or suicide.

2. Keep a little [...]

The SVDP-USA site has a link to the latest issue of the international newsletter of the SSVDP.Source

Last week, I presented a draft list of ten “mega-trends” which I believe are shaping the future of the Catholic church, and asked for reader reaction. I was stunned by the response. In addition to the public comments on the NCR site, I received scores of personal messages, most of them deeply thoughtful and well-informed. [...]

MARSFIELD NSW, December 27, 2006: The Lay Led Liturgies, Reflections and Intercessions provided by Fr John O’Kefee CM have been updated to the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time (February 11, 2007).
All can be accessed on this Site at:
http://www.vincentians.org.au/vinlayliturgy.htm

Sr. Mary McCormick, SC (New York) has composed a prayer service with above title for this year’s celebration of the feast of Elizabeth Ann Seton.Star-Gazer

Elizabeth Seton’s Journey of Faith

January 4, 2007
Epiphany, season of journeys, offers starlight as guide for the yet-uncharted
paths of our own interior life. With the Magi and Elizabeth Ann, we ‘walk by
faith [...]

Christmas challenges us to discover the face of Christ in each
brother or sister that we greet, in each friend whose hand we shake, in
each beggar who ask for bread, in each worker who wants to exercise the
right to join a union, in each farm workers who looks for work in our
fields. If we see [...]

Christmas is a season of giving, and in a rather self-serving application of that spirit, this week I’m asking readers to give me something. Specifically, I’m asking for reactions to my list of the 10 most important “mega-trends” in Catholicism today, which appears below.
My next book is titled “The Upside Down Church,”

(Editor’s comment – This [...]

Here is the text of Pope Benedict XVI’s ‘Urbi et Orbi’
The Vatican’s official English-language translation of Pope Benedict XVI’s “Urbi et Orbi” Christmas Day address, delivered in Italian from the balcony in St. Peter’s Basilica.
“Our Saviour is born to the world!” During the night, in our Churches, we again heard this message that, notwithstanding the [...]