On the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, 18 young people in Grand Fond, Dominica, publicly expressed their commitment to the Vincentian path, reciting the pledge to become members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul’s youth movement. The celebration brought together faith, formation, fellowship, and a renewed call to serve others with dignity and love.

Depaul USA has opened Dax Denver, a new residence for college students experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity in Denver, Colorado. The Vincentian-inspired program will house up to 15 students while providing case management, employment assistance, educational support, and a pathway toward independent, permanent housing.

September brought several opportunities to celebrate and share the life and legacy of Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich: from the Saints on Their Way Conference at the Seton Shrine to a presentation for students at the Academy of Saint Elizabeth and a St. Vincent’s Day of service. Her witness continues to inspire new generations nearly a century after her death.

At the beginning of 2026, Suzanne Smith, an award-winning producer with ABC TV Australia, contacted the Sisters of Charity of New York after discovering the Congregation on Instagram. She had been following the Sisters’ growing Holy Trouble advocacy work and saw a larger story worth telling. That story would eventually bring Smith and an ABC Australia film crew more than 10,000 miles from Australia to New York.

The pharmaceutical debate eventually reaches a question economics cannot answer: what do human beings owe one another when health and survival depend on resources distributed through markets? This final article examines Catholic teaching on medicines, profit, research, and access, and asks what the Vincentian Family—born from service to the sick poor—might contribute to a global struggle that combines immediate human need with the demand for systemic change.

The price printed on a medicine is only the visible end of a much longer chain of decisions. This second article follows that chain through patents, research priorities, manufacturing know-how, international trade rules, government price negotiations, corporate influence, technology transfer, and new attempts to redesign pharmaceutical markets so that innovation and access do not become opposing goals.

From Paris and Saint-Denis to Lourdes and Metz, Pope Leo XIV’s September 2026 journey through France became a sustained meditation on peace, human dignity, faith, fraternity, and Europe’s future. Along the way, the Pope repeatedly evoked France’s tradition of Christian charity, explicitly recalling St. Vincent de Paul and Blessed Frédéric Ozanam while members of the Vincentian Family accompanied the journey from within.

Between 2026 and 2028, the Sisters of Mary of the Miraculous Medal mark two major jubilees with a pilgrimage to Paris. At rue du Bac and rue de Sèvres, 39 sisters from across the Congregation returned to the spiritual roots of their charism, giving thanks for their history, their mission of service to the poor, and the gift of the Miraculous Medal.

Modern medicine can now treat diseases once considered untouchable, yet billions of people still struggle to obtain even basic care. This first article examines one of the most disturbing paradoxes of global health: a medicine may exist, and science may know how to save a life, while price, geography, poverty, research priorities, or the weakness of a health system still place that medicine beyond a patient’s reach.

In Singapore, Vincentians from the Conference of Christ the King joined parishioners and community volunteers to offer vulnerable neighbors a weekly restaurant-style lunch. With carefully set tables, warm meals, entertainment, and friendship, the initiative shows that serving people in need means honoring their dignity as well as meeting their material needs.

In Singapore, the Lee family’s stable life changed when they welcomed a two-year-old niece whose mother had been imprisoned. Caring for three very young children soon brought emotional and financial strain. With practical support from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the family found stability, hope, and the strength to continue caring for each child.

In Singapore, young members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul created Golden Hour to accompany homebound Friends in Need facing illness, limited mobility, caregiving responsibilities, or loneliness. Through conversation, crafts, games, and prayer, simple visits became genuine friendships that brought joy to those served and transformed the young Vincentians themselves.

In Makinsk, Kazakhstan, Sister Halina launched the “Safe Roof and Pure Water” project to help Tatiana and Maria, two sick single mothers living in harsh conditions. With local workers and broad community support, Tatiana received a new roof and renovated kitchen, while Maria gained clean running water, restoring safety, dignity, and hope to both families.

At Lindalva Inclusive School in Benin City, Nigeria, an expanded fish farm now provides affordable, protein-rich food while creating jobs and training opportunities for people with disabilities. The self-sustaining project supports 370 vulnerable people, funds schooling, strengthens inclusion, and has helped children like Miriam regain health, dignity, and hope.

At La Inmaculada School in Trinidad, Bolivia, the “Time for Experiments” project equipped a science laboratory for 750 students. New materials for chemistry, physics, biology, and other sciences now make learning practical and engaging, strengthen critical thinking, and inspire young people to pursue scientific studies and future careers.

In the Philippines, “Absence Hurts, Listening Repairs” provides psychosocial support to children whose parents work abroad. Through workshops for young people and caregivers, participants learn to express emotions, cope with separation, and rebuild confidence. More than 220 children have already found support, healing, and renewed hope.

In Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, “The Way of the Forgotten” project supported families displaced by conflict with food, warm clothing, and medical care. Eighty people received direct assistance and more than 150 relatives benefited indirectly. Beyond meeting urgent needs, the initiative restored dignity, reduced anxiety, and renewed hope among vulnerable women and children.

For ten years in Kumasi, Ghana, St. Vincent de Paul Day Care offered the children of street-connected and market-working mothers something their parents often struggled to provide: a safe place to grow, learn, and imagine another future. More than 500 children passed through its classrooms before worsening conditions around the site forced its closure in July 2026.

Jean Le Vacher, a seventeenth-century Vincentian priest, ministered to Christian slaves in North Africa with compassion and courage. Serving also as French consul, he was martyred in 1683, embodying Vincentian charity to the end.

Founded in East Java by Vincentian Father Paulus Hendrikus Janssen, the ALMA Sisters are a secular institute of consecrated women who make Gospel tangible among people with disabilities, the poor, and neglected communities through shared life, pastoral service, education, rehabilitation, and distinctly Vincentian love in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

Built in 1912 in Ermita, Manila, San Vicente de Paul Parish is one of the Philippines’ notable early reinforced-concrete churches. Rooted in the ministry of the Vincentians and Daughters of Charity, it survived the destruction of World War II and grew into an important center of Marian devotion, now recognized as the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.

Vincentians are people of contemplation and action, we often say. This does not mean we cut back on one in order to make room for the other. Rather, our action is simply an extension of our contemplative prayer.

In this series, Fr. Rooney extends the Sunday experience by looking at how we practically live a liturgically informed life. This week: As we make sure the poor are cared for, we make sure they live in a beautiful and well-cared-for Earth, our common home.

After situating the technological transformation of our time within the tradition of Catholic social teaching, Pope Leo XIV returns to the fundamental Christian question: Who is the human person?

Most Ukrainians surveyed recognize people experiencing homelessness as equal members of society, and many respond to them with compassion and practical help. Yet powerful stereotypes remain: homelessness is still widely associated with addiction, unwillingness to work, criminality, and personal choice. The study reveals a society caught between solidarity and stigma.

Born amid the upheavals of nineteenth-century Poland, Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska transformed prayerful compassion into organized service. Her work with the Ladies of Charity led her to shelter abandoned children and elderly women and, eventually, to found the Felician Sisters, uniting Franciscan simplicity, Vincentian charity, Eucharistic prayer, and courageous trust in God’s will.

In this video we see the testimony of a Daughter of Charity who gives out Miraculous Medals among the sick of the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome.

As World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul, South Korea, approaches, the Vincentian Youth Day Preparatory Committee invites the entire Vincentian Family to unite in prayer. A special invitation goes to Vincentians in Asia as they prepare for this important gathering of young people from around the world.

“Like a stream is the King’s heart in the hand of the Lord. Wherever it pleases Him, the Lord directs it.”

Cuba enters the fall of 2026 marked by shortages, blackouts, difficulties accessing water, medicine, and food, and profound social exhaustion. From within that daily reality, Sister Nadieska Almeida, a Cuban Daughter of Charity, reflects on fear, helplessness, and the need to support one another so that hope is not lost.

Read In: Español Italiano Polski Français Português Jesus is the truest image of God.  Hence, there is no better way for us to be images of God than to be true disciples of Jesus.  All creation, of course, bears the Creator’s inscription.  But there is the specific saying that man and woman were created in the […]

Mental health care remains a pressing challenge, especially where stigma, discrimination, and exclusion still affect people living with mental illness. Drawing on the legacy of Peter Joseph Triest and Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention, Bro. René Stockman calls for compassionate, professional, holistic care that safeguards dignity, offers hope, and includes spiritual support.

In this video we see the testimony of a Daughter of Charity who gives out Miraculous Medals among the sick of the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome.

The beatification Mass for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen took place on Thursday, September 24, 2026, in St. Louis, Missouri. 

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We are pleased to share an article by Jeannete C. Baptista, a 19-year-old Vincentian and President of the Saviour of the World Conference in Loutulim, Goa (India), in which she reflects on Blessed Frédéric Ozanam and the enduring relevance of his legacy, particularly as an example of commitment for new generations.