Laudato Si
Called to Ecological Conversion
by Sister Caroljean Willie, SC | April 25, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
One of the themes threaded throughout Laudato Si’ is the need for an ecological conversion.
The Value of Everyone
by Donna Geernaert, SC | April 11, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
In today’s world where countless organisms have been destroyed or are under threat, the cross of Christ reveals God’s redemptive co-suffering with creation in all its complexity, struggle and pain.
Integral Ecology and Universal Solidarity
by Owen Smith | March 21, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
All is connected. This concept, examined at length in Laudato Si, is critically important to Catholics and all people who seek to address the crises gripping our world without abandoning our humanity.
In Search of Dignity
by Bill Hurley | March 7, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
We as human beings, throughout the world, are faced with a problem that should be causing each of us to search inside ourselves and ask “am I responsible for someone’s loss of dignity?”
![The Value of Everyone](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2020/09/laudato-si-featured-pope1.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
The Value of Everyone
by Donna Geernaert, SC | Apr 11, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
In today’s world where countless organisms have been destroyed or are under threat, the cross of Christ reveals God’s redemptive co-suffering with creation in all its complexity, struggle and pain.
![The Value of Everyone](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2020/09/laudato-si-featured-pope1.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Integral Ecology and Universal Solidarity
by Owen Smith | Mar 21, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
All is connected. This concept, examined at length in Laudato Si, is critically important to Catholics and all people who seek to address the crises gripping our world without abandoning our humanity.
![The Value of Everyone](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2020/09/laudato-si-featured-pope1.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
In Search of Dignity
by Bill Hurley | Mar 7, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
We as human beings, throughout the world, are faced with a problem that should be causing each of us to search inside ourselves and ask “am I responsible for someone’s loss of dignity?”
Ever Given Up On a Dream?
by John Freund, CM | Feb 26, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
Pope Francis, in “Envisioning and engendering an Open World,” presents a world where we move beyond the original fault of self-centeredness to recognizing the worth of every human person.
Faith for Earth
by Sr. Caroljean Willie, SC, Ph.D. | Feb 21, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Laudato Si’ provides a roadmap for navigating the very uncertain times in which we find ourselves today. We are facing an ecological crisis which is both a profound moral and cultural crisis.
A Vincentian Response to Climate Change
by Sr. Donna Geernaert, SC Halifax | Feb 7, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Since the publication of Laudato Si in May 2015, several faith-based groups have initiated projects intended to support work in ecological conservation, environmental activism, and advocacy for climate justice.
Living Into Collaboration – A Vincentian Laudato Si’ Point of View, Part 2
by Carol De Angelo, SC | Jan 17, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
In Part 2, I ask us to reflect on how practicing contemplative awareness, attitude and intention and comprehensive compassion are important aspects of Vincentian-Setonian collaboration.
Living Into Collaboration – A Vincentian Laudato Si’ Point of View, Part 1
by Carol De Angelo, SC | Jan 3, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
My reflections come from many years of working in collaboration but as I write this it is with two non-Vincentian groups, with whom we Sisters of Charity of New York currently collaborate that are uppermost in my mind. Part 1
Laudato Si’s Big Questions
by Owen Smith | Dec 20, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
Laudato Si describes the integral relationship the many crises facing our world share.
Laudato Si: Everything is Connected
by Caroljean Willie, SC, Ph.D. | Dec 6, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
“We need a conversion which includes everyone since the environmental challenge we are undergoing and its human roots, concern and affect us all.”
Homelessness and Laudato Si
by Molly Seeley, Institute of Global Homelessness | Nov 15, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
We need to look not only at housing those already on the street, but also at addressing the root reasons that people become homeless in the first place.
Young Vincentians from Portugal mobilize for Lebanon
by Vincentian Homeless Alliance | Nov 15, 2020 | News
Several groups of the Vincentian Marian Youth of Portugal mobilized to send funds to the International Vincentian Family for Lebanon.