![International Refugee Conference adjourned to June 2022](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2021/12/sevilla-1080x630.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
International Refugee Conference adjourned to June 2022
Our second international conference “The journey of a refugee” will take place in Seville (Spain) from the 7th to the 9th of June 2022.
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Keep Jesus Christ in Our Hearts
Jesus is the Son of God and the Brother of all men and women. To belong to his family means to keep in the heart his teaching. Twelve-year old Jesus sits in the midst of the teachers. He listens and asks them questions; all who hear him are amazed. No doubt, it is...![Merry Christmas from the Vincentian Family Office](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2021/12/VFO-Christmas-Card-FI-1080x630.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Merry Christmas from the Vincentian Family Office
Merry Christmas to you and yours from the Vincentian Family Office!
![Christmas Message 2021 – Society of Saint Vincent de Paul 16th General President](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2021/12/christmas-pgi-1080x630.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Christmas Message 2021 – Society of Saint Vincent de Paul 16th General President
On behalf of the International General Council, I would like to wish you and your family a holy and joyful Christmas, filled with many blessings.
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Christmas With Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
An examination of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Collected Writings reveals many stories of Christmas, often marked by sorrow, illness, and death… but with ever-present threads of joy and hope.
![Merry Christmas from the Miraculous Medal Shrine](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2021/12/merry-christmas-camm-shrine-featured-1080x630.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Merry Christmas from the Miraculous Medal Shrine
Father Timothy Lyons, C.M. and Mary Jo Timlin-Hoag would like to wish you and your family a happy and healthy Christmas Season, and a Blessed New Year!
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Have We Outgrown Nativity Scenes?
A good number of readers have either witnessed or were participants as children in appropriate costumes and props re-enacted the Nativity scene.
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Can Dickens Teach Us Homeless Advocacy?
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol?” Who hasn’t read it, or heard it or seen it on stage or screen?
![Not Just a Landlord: The Sisters of Charity of New York’s Commitment to Value-Added Housing](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2021/12/scny-housing-featured-1080x630.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Not Just a Landlord: The Sisters of Charity of New York’s Commitment to Value-Added Housing
The Sisters of Charity of New York have been strong advocates for affordable housing since their earliest days.
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A Vincentian View: Journeying Together – Joseph and Mary
Pope Francis has decided that an emphasis in our Catholic community for the next few years will focus our attention on the concept of “synodality.”