Renato Lima de Oliveira
Anguished and Energetic Plea of Pope Francis for Peace
On Wednesday, February 23, during his General Audience in the Vatican, Pope Francis made an anguished and energetic plea for peace.
Letter to the Vincentian Family in Ukraine and Eastern Europe
Dear Sisters and Brothers of our Vincentian Family National Council in the Ukraine, and all members of the Vincentian Family in Eastern Europe,
Sister Gabriella Borgarino (1880-1949)
Pope Francis has recognised the heroic virtues of Sister Gabriella BORGARINO who thus becomes Venerable.
International Vincentian Family Leaders to Meet in Rome
Philadelphia, PA - The newly established Vincentian Family Office in Philadelphia, Pa., USA, announces that international Vincentian Family leaders will meet in Rome during January 2016: The annual meeting of the Vincentian Family Executive Committee (VFEC), composed...
Serve: House of Charity
The House of Charity New Orleans is a collaborative ministry of the Sisters of Charity Federation. The idea was dreamed up by members of the Company of Charity Formation Personnel or CCFP over several years. The idea of coming together to share our common Charism in...
Connect and Learn: Vincentian Conference of Presidents
On March 30, 2011, the three Provincial Councils of the Congregation of the Mission in the United States held a joint meeting in which the Superior General was encouraged to convene a gathering of the Congregation's three U.S. Universities in order to foster a...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of the Eucharist
Founded in 1889 in Greece at Thessalonica (now Salonika) by Reverend Joseph Alloatti, C.M., (1857-1933), and Sister Marianna Pucci, D.C., (1848-1918) with the purpose of promoting Eucharistic devotion in Macedonia and Bulgaria, especially by religious education of...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy
While attending the first Provincial Council of Baltimore in the fall of 1829, Bishop John England of Charleston, SC met four women of that city: sisters Mary and Honora O’Gorman, their niece, Teresa Barry (aged 15), natives of Ireland and Mary Elizabeth Burke, who...
Connect and Learn: Monastery of the Assumption (Monastero Uspenskij)
It was founded in 1957 in Rome, Italy, by Sister Catherine Morosoff, D.C., (b. 1910) under the direction of Pope Pius XII at the recommendation of Cardinal Eugene Tisserant, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Eastern Churches, in order to start a monastery...
Serve: South Sudan
Prior to its independence in July 2011 from the old Sudan, South Sudan has known nothing but war and conflict. The devastation that engulfed this part of Africa for more than 20 years included destroyed infrastructure, the highest rate of illiteracy in the world,...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish
Historically, the Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish began their life with the Sisters of Charity of Halifax and can trace their roots in the same traditions. The Sisters of St. Martha were formally established as a religious congregation in 1900 after a providential...
Connect and Learn: Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Faith
Founded 1867 at Glasnevin in Dublin, Ireland, by Reverend John Gowan, C.M., (1817-1897), and Margaret Aylward (1810-1889), educated in Paris, who first established (1851) the Ladies of Charity in Ireland to deal with poverty from the potato famine. A primary focus was...