September 11, 2001 is remembered through collapsing towers, smoke, sirens, and numbers. Behind those images were people who feared, prayed, helped, grieved, survived, and carried the day inside them for years. Through several lives touched by the attacks, a Vincentian question emerges: how do we keep suffering from becoming anonymous—and pain from becoming hatred?

As the UK faces its fifth heatwave of the summer, people experiencing homelessness are increasingly exposed to dangerous temperatures, dehydration and serious health risks. Depaul UK argues that safe housing must be recognized as essential protection against a climate crisis that is making homelessness more hazardous.

Juan Manuel B. Gómez, International President General of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, reflects on Frédéric Ozanam’s relevance today: new forms of poverty, the inseparable bond between charity and justice, the canonization cause, home visits, youth, and the decisive role of laypeople in bringing the Gospel into the heart of society.

As world leaders prepare to gather again at the United Nations, wars continue, the Sustainable Development Goals are badly off track, and confidence in multilateral institutions is weakening. Is the UN becoming powerless—or do we misunderstand what it can actually do? A Vincentian perspective asks a different question: what would the world’s most vulnerable people lose if cooperation itself collapsed?

On 24 May 2026, the Ambassadors WWB from Timor-Leste (who call themselves ‘Ambassadors of Love’), together with the Brothers CMM and the ALMA Sisters in Dili, successfully carried out two major activities that integrated both spiritual and social dimensions.

A fresh, energetic hymn to Blessed Frédéric Ozanam invites a new generation to turn faith into action. With a modern, funky sound and a timeless Vincentian message, the song celebrates Ozanam’s love for Christ, his friendship with those who were poor, and his call to laypeople today: go forth, draw near, serve, and build bonds of charity.

Indifference rarely begins as open cruelty. It grows through haste, overload, digital distance, and systems that turn suffering into background noise. This editorial examines how that habit wounds society and asks how the Vincentian Family can answer it through attentive presence, dignified service, advocacy, collaboration, and prayer—learning once more to see Christ in every person.

A new European Union regulation has begun to reshape how packaging is made, used, reused, and recycled. Beyond bottles and boxes lies a deeper question about our throwaway culture, the resources we consume, and the burden waste places on people and creation. For Christians and Vincentians, caring for our common home must become concrete action.

Pope Leo XIV welcomed a delegation from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA at the Vatican, thanking Vincentians for their service to people in need. Pointing to St. Vincent de Paul, he urged them to unite prayer, social justice, and personal encounter with Christ in those they serve, allowing charity to transform both giver and receiver.

In Singapore, Cherry’s story shows how patient accompaniment, practical support, and personal determination can help a family move from crisis toward hope.

In Singapore, a simple act of attention changed the direction of Linda’s life. For some time, she had been selling packets of tissue paper outside Novena Church. Many people passed by, but some parishioners stopped, noticed her situation, and offered help. Eventually, one of them connected her with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Conference of Our Lady of Lourdes.

In Nacarôa, Mozambique, Vincentians Awakening Talents brings together about 45 vulnerable children through dance, cultural activities, agriculture, service, and Vincentian formation. With few resources but strong community commitment, the project helps children discover their gifts, serve others, and begin building hope for the future.

In Singapore, Agnes Tan and Enoch Yang have spent nearly two decades showing how Vincentian service can grow from a simple response to need into a lifelong relationship of friendship, faith, and hope.

For more than 25 years, Sister Luisa Derouen has walked alongside transgender people as a spiritual companion, listening to their stories, praying with them and reminding them they are loved by God.

After surviving the Chooralmala landslide in Wayanad, India, the Vijayan family invited the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth to bless their new home in Kerala, remembering the support they received after the disaster. Their gratitude shows how compassionate presence and small acts of kindness can help heal lives long after a crisis.

he opening of the Shirikisho Dispensary Maternity was more than the inauguration of a building. It was a sign of life. It marked a new chapter in OIP’s mission to uphold human dignity and improve the well-being of vulnerable families.

At Shirikisho Craft Vocational Training Centre, young people learn practical skills that can help them build a more secure and independent future.

The Virgen del Pilar Social Center in Zaragoza, Spain, invites people everywhere to take part in the #60MinuteChallenge—an initiative that transforms shared time into presence, listening, and companionship.

The Cathedral of Saint Vincent de Paul in Tôlagnaro stands where the first Lazarist missionaries sent by Saint Vincent reached Madagascar in 1648. Inaugurated in 1969, its modern architecture, diocesan role, and living Vincentian presence make it both a memorial to missionary courage and a continuing center of faith and service for the communities of Anosy and Androy.

Saint Vincent de Paul’s legacy invites the Vincentian Family to rediscover its vocation with gratitude and wonder. Called by name, gathered in communion, and sent in the Church’s mission, Vincentians are urged to recognize today’s faces of poverty, strengthen collaboration among branches, deepen formation, and remain available to serve Christ in the poor with courage and hope.

The motive for our works, the mission of our vocation, and the God whom we serve are all a single thing: charity. This theological virtue, which the Apostle teaches us is above all other virtues, is defined in our catechism with a recitation of the Greatest Commandment: to love God above all things for his own sake, and to love our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.

In this series, Fr. Rooney extends the Sunday experience by looking at how we practically live a liturgically informed life. This week: many lay Vincentians are married; let’s reflect on how we can imitate the virtues of holy founder Frederic Ozanam in his relationship with his wife, Amélie.

In this opening section of Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV presents artificial intelligence, digitalization, and robotics as part of the res novae — the “new things” — of our time. He does not begin with fear, nor with naïve enthusiasm. He begins with discernment.

Homelessness damages health, while poor health makes escaping homelessness more difficult. In Ukraine, the loss of identity documents can tighten this cycle further, blocking access to medical care, social benefits, employment, and housing precisely when a person needs them most.

Manuel Martínez Jiménez, an attorney and farmer from Almería, made the Eucharist the center of an intense lay vocation and turned his possessions into lasting works serving people in poverty, priestly vocations, and the Church. A member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, he was murdered in 1936 amid the violence of the Spanish Civil War and beatified in 2017 with 114 other martyrs of Almería.

Fr. Robert Maloney, C.M. reflects on St. John Gabriel Perboyre, C.M.: What went on inside this genuinely holy man?

The life story of Juan Gabriel Perboyre, C.M., born in a rural area of France in 1802 and martyred in China in 1840, from peasant to missionary, reveals a deeply personal story of discernment, perseverance, and faith.

Sometimes someone says something to us about us that finds a firm place in our thinking.  It need not be something brilliant or even insightful, but when we hear it, we know that it is true and it sticks.  It becomes part of how we think about ourselves and how we give ourselves guidance and encouragement and energy.

The patient work of an artisan offers a powerful image of the spiritual life: transformation takes time, grace requires cooperation, and beauty can emerge from imperfection. As artisans of peace and hope, we are invited to sit at the feet of Jesus, the Master Artisan, allowing Him to shape our hearts and lead us into new paths of charity and mission.

Read In: Español Italiano Polski Français Português Jesus is God’s compassion made flesh.  Hence, we Christians are to be compassionate and to forgive those who sin against us. Peter is already generous as he suggests that we have to forgive up to seven times a brother who sins.  But Jesus goes further than such generosity. […]

Over the years, how many threshold moments have we Vincentians faced? Inside what thresholds might we be standing in the present day?

Read In: Español Italiano Polski Français Português Jesus laid down his life for us, and he thus made known to us love.  We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.  In that way, we pay the debt that we owe him.  We owe Jesus a huge debt.  For he loved us […]

Jesus’ questions to his disciples—“Who do people say that I am?” and “Who do you say that I am?”—offer a powerful framework for Christian education. Learning becomes more than acquiring knowledge: it becomes a journey toward understanding Christ more deeply and allowing that encounter to shape faith, choices, and daily life.

Read In: Español Italiano Polski Français Português Jesus, the Word made flesh, makes known God’s thoughts and will.  He shows us what it means to think as God and to be true to God’s thinking.  Peter confesses, yes, that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God.  For the Father has granted him […]

Over the years, how many threshold moments have we Vincentians faced? Inside what thresholds might we be standing in the present day?

Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God. Yes, we know him so by grace, by the Father’ revelation. And we, who are flesh and blood, must announce him so with our lives.
By grace, by the Father’s good will, simple folks get to know things of God. The wise, in contrast, do not get to know these things.