by John Freund, CM | Sep 24, 2012 | Vincentian Family
“Long before there was such a thing as Australia there were families who lived here, people who cared for each other and the earth, people for whom the world was a deeply spiritual place, people who loved to tell stories about the things that really mattered to...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 24, 2012 | Evangelization, Technology: Issues and Uses
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest have become the equivalent of the town square. “That’s where the public conversation is happening now,” said David L. Hansen, pastor of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church Prairie Hill in Brenham, Texas....
by John Freund, CM | Sep 23, 2012 | Vincentian Family
Tim Williams of the Australian CMs reminds us of the words of one of Vincent’s biographers… “He left us neither a learned treatise nor a body of doctrine, only the little volume of his Rule, a brief synthesis of his theological spirituality. He was content...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 23, 2012 | Justice and Peace
(Romereports.com) The Vatican’s Foreign Minister has called on all nations to work toward ending the stockpiles of nuclear weapons. While addressing the International Atomic Energy Agency, known as the IAEA, Monsignor Dominique Mamberti also noted that...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 22, 2012 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
My Own Mission Statement Amanda Kern writes… “The Daughters of Charity have a mission – “given to God in community for the service of the poor” – which I try to follow every day. Yet, I think, at my deepest core, I have a different...