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The Junior Ladies of Charity from St. John’s Preparatory School sponsored a Human Trafficking Awareness Project for their school community. The Junior Ladies chose to coincide with the United Nations 60th Commission on the Status of Women the United Nations Missions,...
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, National President Sheila Gilbert and National CEO Dave Barringer will be featured in an all new episode of the Eternal Word Television Network series, "The Church Universal." This brand-new St. Vincent de Paul episode will air on...
Do you feel called to serve as a spiritual director? Developed by Dr. Vie Thorgren, SCNA/SCLA, and sponsored by the Center for Spirituality at Work in Denver, the Vincentian Formation Program for Beginning and Experienced Spiritual Directors is now accepting...
“Hazy, Clearer, That’s It.” An Emmaus Pattern of Discipleship (Lk 24:13-35) Apologies if this opening metaphor doesn’t catch the profundity of this wonderful conversion story of the two disciples on the Emmaus road. But… You’re in the eye doctor’s office and sitting...
At the Bronx Campus of Mount Saint Vincent College, on February 26, representatives of several branches of the Vincentian Family met to discuss ways to more effectively work together to help people living in poverty improve their living conditions through Systemic...
A Vincentian View “The Cross: All about Giving” In Christian circles, this past Sunday, March 20, is most often called “Palm Sunday” but also “Passion Sunday” since one proclaims the story of Jesus’ suffering and death. Now, the cross begins to move towards center...
What happened to the issue of poverty? Like a set of misplaced keys, I know it was there a minute ago but now I can’t find it. Within the past year, poverty was the issue of the day on the national stage. Stemming from the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty,...
Dr. Michael Thio, President General of the International SSDP, spoke to Caritas in Rome in February. The topic of Dr. Thio's address was the encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, God is Love, and what the challenges are for Catholic charity organizations. The 54-minute...
As I sat and watched my almost 3-year-old daughter dancing back and forth about 50 times in our upstairs hallway Saturday morning, all I could think about was how wonderful God is to put me on the path I am on. The path that kept me in Western New York, close to...
The international conference “The religious and migrations in the 21st century: perspectives, response and challenges,” organised by the representation before the United Nations of the Passionists International, the Congregation of St. Joseph, Augustinians...
