“I had not yet learned of the situation at the house [hospital] of the poor. But my God, my dear Sister, who is going to live there and what will happen to the work of the Ladies of Charity, if their patients are obliged to go to the hospital? You will see that...
Blessed Frederic Ozanam, founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, was an important figure in the Catholic social movement that gave rise to what today we call the social teaching of the Church. In a talk given to representatives of the SSVP in Ontario, author...
Italian layman Joseph Mayr-Nusser who refused to take the Hitler oath was beatified March 18 in his home town of Bolsano. In 1944, Mayr-Nusser, a Catholic husband and father, refused to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler after being drafted into the German army. He...
All around the world, women move not only themselves and their families to safer locations but they move their communities to overcome injustice. Commemorating International Women’s Day, the St. John’s CRS Global Campus Committee organized a panel of experts focusing...
“There was one week in December when I felt like everything went wrong.” Vincent would have known what you’re talking about! He said, “Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends...