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Beyond the Headlines: September 11 and The Lives Behind the Day
September 11, 2001 is remembered through collapsing towers, smoke, sirens, and numbers. Behind those images were people who feared, prayed, helped, grieved, survived, and carried the day inside them for years. Through several lives touched by the attacks, a Vincentian question emerges: how do we keep suffering from becoming anonymous—and pain from becoming hatred?
The UK’s Fifth Heatwave This Summer: the Growing Risk for People Without a Safe Home
As the UK faces its fifth heatwave of the summer, people experiencing homelessness are increasingly exposed to dangerous temperatures, dehydration and serious health risks. Depaul UK argues that safe housing must be recognized as essential protection against a climate crisis that is making homelessness more hazardous.
Ozanam’s Living Legacy: Juan Manuel B. Gómez on Charity, Justice, and the Mission of the Laity
Juan Manuel B. Gómez, International President General of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, reflects on Frédéric Ozanam’s relevance today: new forms of poverty, the inseparable bond between charity and justice, the canonization cause, home visits, youth, and the decisive role of laypeople in bringing the Gospel into the heart of society.
Beyond the Headlines: If the United Nations Cannot Stop the Wars, What Is It For?
As world leaders prepare to gather again at the United Nations, wars continue, the Sustainable Development Goals are badly off track, and confidence in multilateral institutions is weakening. Is the UN becoming powerless—or do we misunderstand what it can actually do? A Vincentian perspective asks a different question: what would the world’s most vulnerable people lose if cooperation itself collapsed?
Ambassadors of a Worldwide Brotherhood (WWB) Activities at Becora Prison Establishment in Timor-Leste
On 24 May 2026, the Ambassadors WWB from Timor-Leste (who call themselves ‘Ambassadors of Love’), together with the Brothers CMM and the ALMA Sisters in Dili, successfully carried out two major activities that integrated both spiritual and social dimensions.
Songs with a Vincentian Flavor: “The Bonds of Charity” (Hymn to Frédéric Ozanam)
A fresh, energetic hymn to Blessed Frédéric Ozanam invites a new generation to turn faith into action. With a modern, funky sound and a timeless Vincentian message, the song celebrates Ozanam’s love for Christ, his friendship with those who were poor, and his call to laypeople today: go forth, draw near, serve, and build bonds of charity.
Learning to See Again: Confronting the Culture of Indifference
Indifference rarely begins as open cruelty. It grows through haste, overload, digital distance, and systems that turn suffering into background noise. This editorial examines how that habit wounds society and asks how the Vincentian Family can answer it through attentive presence, dignified service, advocacy, collaboration, and prayer—learning once more to see Christ in every person.
Beyond the Headlines: Nothing We Throw Away Really Goes Away
A new European Union regulation has begun to reshape how packaging is made, used, reused, and recycled. Beyond bottles and boxes lies a deeper question about our throwaway culture, the resources we consume, and the burden waste places on people and creation. For Christians and Vincentians, caring for our common home must become concrete action.
Pope Leo XIV to U.S. Vincentians: Prayer and Social Justice Are Inseparable
Pope Leo XIV welcomed a delegation from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA at the Vatican, thanking Vincentians for their service to people in need. Pointing to St. Vincent de Paul, he urged them to unite prayer, social justice, and personal encounter with Christ in those they serve, allowing charity to transform both giver and receiver.