“We need a conversion which includes everyone since the environmental challenge we are undergoing and its human roots, concern and affect us all.”
Laudato Si
Homelessness and Laudato Si
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
Several groups of the Vincentian Marian Youth of Portugal mobilized to send funds to the International Vincentian Family for Lebanon.
How does SSVP Create Sustainable Communities?
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...
Laudato Si’ Week and the Vincentian Family
International Catholic eco-groups like the Global Catholic Climate Movement want you to know about “Laudato Si’ Week,” June 12th through the 19th, and they want us all to take part. The goal is to keep the spotlight on the Holy Father’s eco-encyclical, and to continue...
175 nations sign International climate change agreement
Sr. Teresa Kotturan, (second from right) U.N. representative of the Sisters of Charity Federation attended the Paris climate change meetings, held Nov. 30 to Dec. 12. It is with great joy that what she witnessed will now be signed in a ceremony at the United Nations....
A Vincentian Response to Laudato Si’
DePaul University's Newsline Publication offered the following video: Care for our Common Home - A Vincentian Response to Laudato Si'. Insights from the video are highlighted below: ...it's really important...
Vincentian Leader – Laudato Si – Blueprint for the 21st Century Vincentian
Vincentians in Partnership the Vincentian Family in Great Britain hosted three sessions by Vincentian Leader, Sr. Caroljean Willie, Sister of Charity of Cincinnati. These presented an important opportunity to hear about and discuss Pope Francis' Encyclical 'Laudato...
Sister of Charity – Patron saint of scavenging
A recent article by Sharon Abercrombie in the NCR describes Sr. Paula Gonzalez, Sister of Charity of Cincinnati, as a possible Patron saint of scavenging. The article begins... For Sr. Paula Gonzalez, SC 78, recycling is a spiritual practice. She views yard and...
Pope and environmental neglect’s impact on poor – SVDP Webinar
Pope and environmental neglect's impact on poor - SVDP Webinar Join Warren Wright, our Mideast Regional Voice of the Poor Leader, for a discussion about the particularly negative impact global climate change has on the poor and vulnerable as articulated in the Pope's...
A call to ecological conversion
Sr. Carol Jean Wille, Sister of Charity (Cincinnati), reflects on a call to ecological conversion and the role that women's communities have been playing for some time. She writes in A call to Ecological Conversion - Global Sisters Report, National Catholic...
Laudato Si’ invoked by CM Bishop
Bishop Benjamin Romarosa, C.M., of Madagascar speaks of caring for our common home and Laudato Si' in a strongly worded letter to his own government. Madagascar, one of the planet’s poorest countries, has become a new Eldorado of the large international mining...
