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.

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.
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.
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.
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?”
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.
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
by Owen Smith | Dec 20, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
Laudato Si describes the integral relationship the many crises facing our world share.
by John Freund, CM | Jun 24, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
Do you think it is possible to capture the essence of Laudato SI in one cartoon or just five words?
by John Freund, CM | May 27, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change
The earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she “groans in travail” (Rom 8:22)
by John Freund, CM | Oct 11, 2019 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Pope, Reflections
Have I ever thought about the impact of climate change on those who will bear the first effects and brunt of changes?
by Ewan Day-Collins | Apr 29, 2019 | Formation, Homelessness
One of the most important documents this century, Laudato si’ links climate change to poverty more powerfully than perhaps any previous assessment.
by Louis Arceneaux, C.M. | Oct 18, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Pope Francis is following in the line of many of his predecessors in Laudato Si, On Care for Our Common Home, in promoting Catholic Social teaching. What is significant about Pope Francis’ approach is that he addresses Catholic Social teaching through the prism of...
by Elizabeth Astridge | Apr 22, 2017 | Church, News, Pope
Brian Roewe from the National Catholic Reporter Writes: A coincidence of calendars this weekend presents for Catholics an uncommon occurrence, where Earth Day precedes Divine Mercy Sunday, an alignment of dates that has inspired some to use it as an occasion to live...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 27, 2016 | Church, News, Pope
September 1, Pope Francis asks us to pray for creation. Last year Pope Francis declared September 1st as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Pope Francis states that “The annual World Day of Prayer...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 18, 2016 | Church, News, Vincentian Family
Was Laudato Si a "blip" or a "game changer"? An important question, no doubt. But a more important question for us is, does Laudato Si matter to you...and the Vincentian Family? Someone recently said of the Church “We’re collectively the largest global humanitarian...
by John Freund, CM | May 25, 2016 | News, Systemic change
One mattress at a time! A New Approach to Social Welfare: How St. Vincent de Paul Society Creates Sustainable Communities. By turning trash into revenue-producing businesses, St. Vincent de Paul Society (Lane County, Oregon) is simultaneously creating jobs for the...