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Masarnau depicts the Society of St. Vicente de Paul as a community of friends in Christ: praying, reading Scripture, sharing the Eucharist, and serving the poor together. Their bond is more than affection; it is spiritual fraternity, nourished by prayer and the Eucharist, and made visible in shared service—a sign of ecclesial communion and witness to God’s love.
Today, October 12, 2026, we, the members of the Vincentian Family, pray for cities to be inclusive, safe, and compassionate.
In this series, Fr. Rooney extends the Sunday experience by looking at how we practically live a liturgically informed life. This week: As we make sure the poor are cared for, we make sure they live in a beautiful and well-cared-for Earth, our common home.
Mental health care remains a pressing challenge, especially where stigma, discrimination, and exclusion still affect people living with mental illness. Drawing on the legacy of Peter Joseph Triest and Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention, Bro. René Stockman calls for compassionate, professional, holistic care that safeguards dignity, offers hope, and includes spiritual support.
After situating the technological transformation of our time within the tradition of Catholic social teaching, Pope Leo XIV returns to the fundamental Christian question: Who is the human person?
Most Ukrainians surveyed recognize people experiencing homelessness as equal members of society, and many respond to them with compassion and practical help. Yet powerful stereotypes remain: homelessness is still widely associated with addiction, unwillingness to work, criminality, and personal choice. The study reveals a society caught between solidarity and stigma.
Today, October 11, 2026, we, the members of the Vincentian Family, pray for communities suffering the loss of cultural identity.
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.
In Singapore, young members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul created Golden Hour to accompany homebound Friends in Need facing illness, limited mobility, caregiving responsibilities, or loneliness. Through conversation, crafts, games, and prayer, simple visits became genuine friendships that brought joy to those served and transformed the young Vincentians themselves.
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.
