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John Freund, CM
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John Freund is a Vincentian priest with a passion for promoting collaboration among the many people inspired by Saints Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac and who welcomes your engagement. Share your ideas and experiences!
Special Prayer for peace in Iraq – August 17
Bishop Pates Asks Bishops, Parishes To Offer Special Prayer On August 17 For Peace In Iraq
The Systemic Change Toolkit: Yours to Use!
The Systemic Change Toolkit: Yours to Use! The Vincentian Family’s International Commission to Promote Systemic Change invites you to take full advantage of its online toolkit containing many useful tools: videos, power point presentations and texts, pictures, talks etc.
A Jobs Plan to retain people’s dignity
“We need a Jobs Plan, not a bashing-the-unemployed plan. Behavioural approaches will not solve structural problems”… “People need income adequacy, not forced income management; dignity, not demonization.”
Nuns Build – New Orleans
Catholic Sisters from across the country, along with their friends and families are coming to New Orleans for Nun’s Build to rebuild the homes and lives of Katrina survivors.
Charity Federation Lifelines
The website of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax offers its Summer Edition of Charity Federation Lifelines.
Love is more than welfare service
Vincentian missioner found his life in a landfill in a Madagascar and has given life to thousands. Fr. Pedro is keen to stress one thing: “I have always said this to them: I love you too much to simply act as a welfare service.
Sr. Christine Mura with strangers in a strange land
It was an encounter in the emergency department about four years ago that convinced Sister Christine Mura, D.C., of the need to shift her focus as a Hispanic outreach and pastoral care worker with St. Mary’s Healthcare in Amsterdam, N.Y.
More people without college lose religion
Today, it’s the least-educated members of Generation X—people born roughly between 1965 and 1980—who are “most likely to leave religion,” said Philip Schwadel, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
New face of Sisters of Charity at UN
The Board of the SC Federation announces the hiring of Sister Teresa Kotturan, SC Nazareth, as the next Federation NGO Representative, continuing our presence at the United Nations in its international efforts to promote peace, justice and human dignity for all
