FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

DePaul University Expands South Loop Campus with Acquisition of the 18 story Historic 14 E. Jackson Building

Robert Maloney CM marks 75th podcast in the dePaul University weekly series Living the Spirituality of Vincent de Paul Today with a reading from his “Go! The missionary spirituality of St. Vincent”. Blogger Raul Angier marks Adamson University’s 75th Anniversary.

A graduate student in the School of Public Service Management at DePaul University reflects on what she saw when she and other students traveled to the Philippines. “Listening to the poor,” she writes, “is key to finding solutions that can meet their needs.” Read the essay.

Congregation of the Mission Father Jack Minogue, a physicist and ethicist and past president of DePaul University, talked with a news blogger at the Chicago Tribune about what the Vatican’s chief astronomer said last week about the search for intelligent life beyond the earth. Read the article.

The Youth and Campus section of today’s Manila Bulletin includes a lengthy feature article about St. Louise de Marillac College of Sorsogon. The college is “a tangible contribution of the Company of the Daughters of Charity to the province of Sorsogon.” Read the article and go to the college Web site.

Among the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, only 14% — 45 — are teachers. One is Sister Susan Yerkich, SC who says, “…it’s kind of a tribute to the current lay leadership that the schools go on beautifully when sisters aren’t present.” Read the story.

A series about the history of Immaculate Conception School in Newburyport, Massachusetts USA, looks at reasons Catholic schools were started in the United States and mentions the crucial role of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in this particular school. Read the article.

Daughter of Charity Sister Dolores Coleman is the feature of an article about what has happened in Mississippi, USA because, thirty years ago, she accepted a ministry “with and for the deaf.” Read the story.

Earlier in the week we mentioned the preschool project for homeless children sponsored by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Eugene, Oregon USA. Now a television station has picked up the story, complete with video. See the coverage.

Children who live in traumatic situations need more than day care. The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Eugene, Oregon USA has full day program that early childhood educators say is unique.

A Brookings Insitute study finds that growing gaps in the education of the rich and poor (and minorities) “could lead to a downturn in opportunities for the poorest families.” Widening disparities in education levels will mean lower mobility in the future than exists today. Read the story.

Findings that poverty has long-term adverse effects on brain development highlight the need for early intervention. “The earlier you intervene [to counteract the impact of poverty], the better the outcome in the end, because the brain loses its plasticity [adaptability] as the child becomes older.” Read the story.

Need and desire. That’s what the “One at a Time” scholarship program of a Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Arizona looks for. The program provides more than scholarship money; it also provides guidance. Read the story.

In 2007 St. Vincent High School in Perryville, Missouri USA sent an astonishing one hundred per cent of its students on to post-secondary education with more than $750,000 in scholarships. Congregation of the Mission Father Joseph Williams and others reflect on the school’s history in this recent article.

A feasibility study has been begun to determine whether a new school in the Christo Rey network makes sense for Cincinnati. The newspaper article calls the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati the “driving force” behind the initiative. Read the newspaper article.