John Freund, CM
Author
Lenten choices ala Pope Francis
Lent that a call for conversion or “change your way of thing” as we stand before two visions of Church
Why Tuesday? – Easter People – Lent Begins with Ashes – Celebrate Family
Why pray and fast on Tuesday? It was a challenge to me as a Vincentian to do more than serve in SSVP and feel good about doing it.
How do you Sisters do it!
When one looks at what dedicated women religious have done in health care, educationand in general, going to the peripheries” the question naturally arises. So just how do sisters keep writing “new chapters” in their lives?
Busted Halo – Go into the Desert for Lent
During this season of Lent, you are invited into the desert: a quiet place, with less of us and more of God.
Marked with Ashes – Fr. Pat Griffin, CM
Unfailingly on this day, some people find a disconnect between the Gospel reading and the marking of our foreheads with ashes.
Pope – Lent as a time to combat our growing global indifference
Pope – Lent as a time to combat our growing global indifference to our brothers and sisters
Vincentian Family in Ukraine (3) – Congregation of the Mission
Fr. Waldemar Rakocy,PhD, C.M. of the Polish Province focused on St Catherine Labouré and on the Miraculous Medal that Blessed Virgin Mary had ordered to have engraved
The False Assumption: Everyone Wants to End Poverty
The debate about income inequality and poverty in America is generally carried out with the underlying assumption that everyone wants to end poverty, and there are well-meaning though different approaches to doing so. But what if that’s not true?
Vincentian Cardinal – Vatican should be voice for the voiceless
Shortly before becoming a Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel, CM called on the Vatican to speak for those suffering around the world in response to a question about what he wants most from Francis' expected reform of the Vatican bureaucracy. NCR presents a profile of...
Who’s in the “New Family”
Father Tom McKenna, CM reflects on Who’s In The “New Family”?