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Msgr Vitillo and Cardinal Czerny confirmed as keynote speakers for FHA Refugee Conference
Monsignor Robert J Vitillo and Cardinal Czerny will headline the FHA Conference “Accompanying the Journey of a Refugee,” an event that will take place both in Seville (Spain) and online.
The Louise Project Has Been Shortlisted for Two National Awards!
One of Daughters of Charity Services projects, The Louise Project, has been shortlisted for 2 national awards: Pioneering Project and Digital Citizen Awards.
Vincentians’ podcast helps people give a minute (or so) to God
Spend a minute with God — now there’s an offer that’s hard to refuse.
World Leaders have only one Choice: Humanity
Sister Teresa Kotturan writes, Around the world over 100 million people are facing floods, droughts, rising sea levels, earthquakes, violence and wars every day. People are left with impossible choices. We have a moral and shared responsibility to act. There is need...
Systemic change programs of the Charity Federation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuchaGcD7k4&feature=youtu.be This 16 minute video presents a report made at the last meeting of the Sisters of Charity Federation... Congratulations to Sr. Jean Rhoads DC, who presented the Systemic Change Report of the Federation...
What’s Happening in Kansas City?!
Opportunities for hospitality/short term volunteering in the K.C. metro area are taken advantage of by several groups of enthusiastic university students during their spring breaks. Seven young women from Creighton U., Omaha, Nebraska served in Vincentian related...
Vincentian Family Leaders Reflections on Collaboration: Responses to Fr. Gregory Gay, C.M.’s Letter of January 2015
St. Vincent de Paul told us “We should assist the poor in every way and do it both by ourselves and by enlisting the help of others…. to do this is to preach the gospel by words and work” (CCD 12: Conf. #195). The Vincentian family was invited to focus 2015 as the...
Vincentians of Wherever: Working for Peace
You'll find them everywhere: alumni of our many institutions. Our world exhibits a need for true change socially, economically, and politically. Innovative leaders can usher through progressive changes with the right programs and the right tools as the world continues...
Rededication of the SVHRC Chapel
St. Vincent’s Healthcare and Rehab Center (SVHRC), formally St. Vincent’s Nursing Home, a division of St. Joseph's Healthcare System in New Jersey, recently honored the rededication of its Chapel, a special place for residents, visitors, family and staff to pray,...
Francis models pastoral care of the homeless
Pope Francis not only raises consciousness about those who are homeless but in so many ways models comprehensive pastoral care of the homeless. After reading the following what questions does it raise for Vincentian Family ministries with the homeless. The Pope’s...
Make someone else’s day a little better #IamVincent @NiagaraUniv
She's making someone's life a little better. Megan Rogers, a sophomore business major at Niagara University, has been named a 2016 Newman Civic Fellow for demonstrating outstanding leadership and civic engagement. Megan is among 218 students in the country to receive...
Cancel the planned USDA dumping of US peanuts on the Haitian market – procure locally
Subsistence farmers in Haiti and economic development experts say they are dismayed by a planned influx of American-grown peanuts from a U.S. agricultural surplus that they fear could undercut a vital cash crop in the impoverished Caribbean nation. (Dieu Nalio...