Vincentian Family

Who You Calling a Vincentian”?

by John Freund, CM | June 26, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 1 Comment

Who is a VIncentian? Is it an organization, a mindset, a federation of religious organizations? Let me suggest that it is a way of looking at things shared by a number of people.

The Ongoing Fight for Gender Equality, now with COVID-19 – Part II

by | June 25, 2020 | News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N. | 0 Comments

In a two-part series, we highlight reports in two different hemispheres that focus on women in the COVID-infected world. Part II.

Vincentian Prayer Images: Recognizing the Frederics In Our Midst

by John Freund, CM | June 23, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments

Do we recognize this generation’s Frederic and friends in our midst today?

The Ongoing Fight for Gender Equality, now with COVID-19 – Part I

by | June 18, 2020 | News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N. | 0 Comments

In a two-part series, we highlight reports in two different hemispheres that focus on women in the COVID-infected world. Part I.

Repairers of a House Divided

by John Freund, CM | Jan 22, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family

Repairers of a House Divided offers Catholics and indeed all Christians timely reflections and 7 biblical habits for Catholics to remedy a torn country.

CIF course especially designed for the Vincentian Family in 2021

by Andrés Motto, CM | Jan 18, 2021 | News, Vincentian Family

Dear brothers and sisters, each year I send you a list the activities of the CIF for next year. We anticipate that by...

Education Day to Focus on Recovery from COVID-19

by Margaret O'Dwyer | Jan 14, 2021 | News, Vincentian Family at the U.N.

The Vincentian Family is committed to education. Education, to our Founders, was a pathway out of poverty.

Another Volume of “Vincentian Heritage” is Available for Download

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 15, 2017 | Announcements, News, Vincentian Family

The most recent issue of Vincentian Heritage is available for downloading both Mobi and PDF formats. Follow this link to their main page or click the image below where the download can be found by scrolling down. Vincentian Heritage is a peer-reviewed journal...

200 posts for #IamVincent @VinMissionCorps @NiagaraUniv @SJUMission

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 14, 2017 | Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Vincentian Family

A LETTER TO MY YOUNG FRIENDS IN THE VINCENTIAN FAMILY Dear friends: Two hundred posts ago, I wrote: Just like you, my life is shaped by Vincent; in a real sense, however small, I am Vincent. So are you. I met some of you for the first time at the USA/Canada Vincentian...

The Commodification of Housing

by Sr. Margaret O’Dwyer, DC | Sep 14, 2017 | News, Vincentian Family at the U.N.

“Housing has lost its social function and is seen instead as a vehicle for wealth and asset growth.” [Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing] We’re becoming all too familiar with these scenarios: families forced out of cities by upward spiraling...

World Water Week: In pursuit of SDG 6

by Natalie Boone - AIC NGO Representative to UN-NY | Sep 7, 2017 | News, Vincentian Family at the U.N.

In pursuit of Strategic Development Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. That was World Water week 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. World Water Week 2017 Overview More than half of households worldwide have access to clean...

FAVISAL: Dialogue with Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, 24th Successor of St. Vincent

by Vincentian Family Office | Sep 4, 2017 | News, Vincentian Family

FAVISAL (the Vincentian Family in El Salvador) share with us their impressions, after a virtual meeting with the Superior General, Tomaž Mavrič, CM, held in May, 2017: We were motivated by the closeness and warmth with which he greeted us. He made us think with the...

Conclusion of the Consecrated Life Continental Seminar to Stop Trafficking in Persons

by Guillermo Campuzano, CM | Aug 24, 2017 | News, Vincentian Family at the U.N.

From August 17-20, I had the opportunity to participate, together with 17 Daughters of Charity (DCs) from all provinces of the Americas, in the seminar to stop human trafficking in Bogota, Colombia. Those gathered at the seminar included women, men, consecrated, and...

Sustainable Development Goal #1: End Poverty

by Catherine Prendergast , DC | Aug 17, 2017 | News, Vincentian Family at the U.N.

END POVERTY IN ALL ITS FORMS EVERYWHERE End extreme poverty in all forms by 2030. Yes, it’s an ambitious goal— but we believe it can be done. In 2000, the world committed to cutting the number of people living in extreme poverty by half in 15 years and we met this...

Invisible Women of Our Society

by Teresa Kotturan SCN | Aug 10, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family at the U.N.

Who are the invisible women in our society? It is said that these women are “absent from statistics, unnoticed by researchers, neglected by national and local authorities and mostly overlooked by civil society organizations.” This is the situation of widows in our...