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September brought several opportunities to celebrate and share the life and legacy of Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich: from the Saints on Their Way Conference at the Seton Shrine to a presentation for students at the Academy of Saint Elizabeth and a St. Vincent’s Day of service. Her witness continues to inspire new generations nearly a century after her death.
At the beginning of 2026, Suzanne Smith, an award-winning producer with ABC TV Australia, contacted the Sisters of Charity of New York after discovering the Congregation on Instagram. She had been following the Sisters’ growing Holy Trouble advocacy work and saw a larger story worth telling. That story would eventually bring Smith and an ABC Australia film crew more than 10,000 miles from Australia to New York.
The pharmaceutical debate eventually reaches a question economics cannot answer: what do human beings owe one another when health and survival depend on resources distributed through markets? This final article examines Catholic teaching on medicines, profit, research, and access, and asks what the Vincentian Family—born from service to the sick poor—might contribute to a global struggle that combines immediate human need with the demand for systemic change.
The price printed on a medicine is only the visible end of a much longer chain of decisions. This second article follows that chain through patents, research priorities, manufacturing know-how, international trade rules, government price negotiations, corporate influence, technology transfer, and new attempts to redesign pharmaceutical markets so that innovation and access do not become opposing goals.
From Paris and Saint-Denis to Lourdes and Metz, Pope Leo XIV’s September 2026 journey through France became a sustained meditation on peace, human dignity, faith, fraternity, and Europe’s future. Along the way, the Pope repeatedly evoked France’s tradition of Christian charity, explicitly recalling St. Vincent de Paul and Blessed Frédéric Ozanam while members of the Vincentian Family accompanied the journey from within.
Between 2026 and 2028, the Sisters of Mary of the Miraculous Medal mark two major jubilees with a pilgrimage to Paris. At rue du Bac and rue de Sèvres, 39 sisters from across the Congregation returned to the spiritual roots of their charism, giving thanks for their history, their mission of service to the poor, and the gift of the Miraculous Medal.
Modern medicine can now treat diseases once considered untouchable, yet billions of people still struggle to obtain even basic care. This first article examines one of the most disturbing paradoxes of global health: a medicine may exist, and science may know how to save a life, while price, geography, poverty, research priorities, or the weakness of a health system still place that medicine beyond a patient’s reach.
Inspired by the diary of Blessed Alberto Marvelli, “Teach Me to Love Like You” turns his passionate desire for holiness into a modern prayer. It is a song about faith that moves beyond words—into service, courage, reflection, and love for those who suffer. A call to young laypeople to let Christ transform ordinary life into mission.
War does not end at the battlefield. Rising energy costs, disrupted shipping, and fertilizer shortages can drive up food prices far from the conflict itself. This reflection looks beyond geopolitical headlines to the families who ultimately pay the price—and asks what a Vincentian response demands of us when war reaches the table of the poor.
