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National Migration Week – Jan. 6-12
National Migration Week 2013 will be held from January 6-12 with a primary theme of “We are Strangers No Longer: Our Journey of Hope Continues.” This year's National Migration Week observance and theme commemorate the 10th anniversary of the historic joint pastoral...
Why join a so-called “dying community”?
Amanda Kern writes, "The question is.....why would a healthy 20-something join a community like this, a community where the average age is in the 70s, a community where she may soon see Sisters she knows and loves forget who she is? Why not join a community where the...
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth speak on India Rape and Murder Case
Roselyn Karakattu, SCN, writes the following: On Jan. 2, I attended a meeting along with Father Philip Manthara, SJ, a few prominent lawyers, members of Mahila Samakhya and with the heads of several women's NGOs and other social activists to make some suggestions to...
Traveling Display – Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, Little Rock, AR, is the first stop for a traveling banner display of the history of the healing ministry of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. The display was created for the bicentennial of the sisters in Nazareth, KY. The three...
Lazarist (CM) founded first non-Jesuit Church in Beijing
Established in 1723 by the Italian Vincentian missionary Teodorico Pedrini, Xitang was the first non-Jesuit church in Beijing. After Pedrini's death, the church was run by Carmelites, then Augustinians, until it was destroyed in 1811 during a purge of Catholics and...
The U.S. ranks 2nd in child poverty
According to UNICEF, 23.1% of American children under the age of seventeen live in poverty, which makes the United States rank second out of thirty-five economically advanced countries ranked in that category. Romania ranks first, with 25.5% of children living in...
Christmas Cards…. images of friends
Before You Get Rid of Those Christmas Cards…. Susan Stabile writes, "As I was contemplating putting away all of the Christmas ornaments, I was reminded of the opening of Fr. Rolf Tollefson’s sermon on January 1. He shared that he had been spending time the last...
Using film to contemplate Religious Life
Cinema, the Vows, Mission, Communion, Spirituality – using film to contemplate Religious Life As we approach Vocation Awareness week, January 13-19, Sr. Rose Pacatte, respected Catholic film critic writes, "Over the last year or so I prepared these lists for the...
Hurricane Sandy – Disaster, injustice or both
It is a distinction all to familiar for memebers of the Vincentian Family who are often first responders in major disasters. Megan Clark, Moral Theology Professor at St. John's University unpacks what is often felt but not articulated. He own experience of the...
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