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“Standing in the Right Place,” With Vincent

“Standing in the Right Place,” With Vincent Father Tom McKenna, CM preached this homily at the St. Vincent's Day celebration for St Vincent's day homily to the Vincentian Family in New Orleans. In his letter on Consecrated Life this past year, Pope Francis pointed to...

St. Vincent’s tough questions on helping the poor

St.John's University professor Meghan Clark observes... "Vincent learned to ask the right questions. We can learn to evaluate the world around us by asking ourselves those same questions" She wrote the following in in the October 2014 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 79,...

St. Vincent – Councilor to the powerful

It was not by preference that St. Vincent found himself as councilor to the powerful.  Fr. Richard J. Kehoe C.M. offers perspectives on what happened in his reflection  "St. Vincent de Paul - A Royal Councilor". By preference Vincent de Paul devoted himself to the...

St. Vincent and human trafficking

The slave trade is not a thing of the past. It is simply once again coming out of the shadows. Today we are beginning to hear a lot about  trafficking, especially about sex trafficking. Pope Francis draws attention to it in his 2015 World Day of Peace message. Human...

Archbishop Cupich, Pope Francis and St.Vincent

Archbishop Cupich, Pope Francis and St.Vincent – When I read this piece about Archbishop Cupich, Pope Francis’s first major U.S. appointment, I thought immediately of St. Vincent de Paul, and indeed just about all the founders of the the various branches of the Vincentian Family. What do you think?

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