Driving a Car For the Last Time
In my mid-eighties, I knew the day would come when I would no longer drive.
A Canadian View: The Times, They Are A-Changing
As I resume my Famvin articles, much has happened over the past summer months.
Looking Out and Looking Up (Luke 19:1-10)
Luke’s 19th chapter begins with a story of “two people looking.”
How Many Saints Do You Know?
I grant there may be few among us who have had the privilege of meeting the likes of the saint we call Mother Theresa. Yet, you and I have touched, or been touched by, saints.
Believers, and Not Just Thinkers
Jesus is the resurrection and the life. It is enough for us to be believers in him to conquer death. The problem of religion does not lie in those who are not believers but in those who are believers. It does not lie in the publican, but in the Pharisee that looks...
Vincentian Prayer Images: Contemporary Art 1
Share your thoughts on a weekly image of St. Vincent de Paul as portrayed by a contemporary artist.
A Vincentian Minute: Vincentian Educational Values – Part 6
In this series Fr. Rooney explores the Values of Vincentian Education proposed by Daughter of Charity Sr. Louise Sullivan.
Ozanam: “The Origins of Socialism”
Antoine-Frederic Ozanam, one of the seven founders of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SSVP), was part of a young Catholic intellectual generation, deeply idealistic and active, socially and politically.
November 6: Vincentian Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
Every November 6, the Church commemorates the saints martyred in the anti-clerical violence that took place during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). A number of them were from the Vincentian Family.
Bible in One Hand, Newspaper In the Other
It popped up in a google search for material related to the words of a theologian “Pray with the bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.”
