How can we blend sysemic change and a “culture of encounter” in serving the homeless.
Pope Francis
The Pope Video • Young People in Africa
by Elizabeth Astridge | September 8, 2018 | Church, Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
The Limits of Pope Francis’ Imagery
by John Freund, CM | August 22, 2018 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 2 Comments
Pope Francis’ Imagery and the Vincentian “Both/And”
The Pope Video • The Treasure of Families
by Elizabeth Astridge | August 4, 2018 | Church, Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
A Profound “NO” to the Death Penalty
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | August 2, 2018 | News, Pope | 0 Comments
Pope Francis calls the death penalty “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.”
Pope Francis on Lent – The Expected and Unexpected
by John Freund, CM | Feb 28, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
I should not have been but I was surprised by some of the things Pope Francis included in his Lenten Letter 2020
Pope Francis and Ozanam on Systemic Change
by John Freund, CM | Feb 26, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change
What do Pope Francis (2020), Pope Pius XI (1927) and Bl. Frederic Ozanam (1848) have in common?
Washing the feet of women
by John Freund, CM | Apr 16, 2014 | Vincentian Family
Women and men were both participating in the ancient rite long before Pope Francis arrived on the scene. An article in April 2014 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 79, No. 4, page 46) provides the history. In 1955, Pius XII reformed the liturgy to make foot washing part...