Formation

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.

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.

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.”

All of us have become familiar with the incentive that has become part of our national effort to protect each other and our country:  “If you see something, say something.”