by John Freund, CM | Jul 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
Rome ReportsTV points out that Ramadan is a spiritual month  include praying the Islamic rosary and calling out 100 different words used to refer to Allah, or God.  More than just abstaining from food, Mustafa Cenap Aydin, director of the Tevere Institute in...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 15, 2012 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
Amanda writes of the impact of  the martyr Ita Ford MM “I found that house on Westminster Place, paused, and prayed. This was no ordinary former novitiate to me, of which there are plenty in St Louis. This was not just a historical building. It meant something...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 14, 2012 | Vincentian Family
 “Receive my warm and heartfelt greeting on this special day when we celebrate the 182nd anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Catherine Laboure and the beginning of the adventure known as the Vincentian Marian Youth...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 14, 2012 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth are confronting a grimmer part of their history… the period when slaves worked for them. As they mark their bicentennial the sisters will dedicate a monument to the order’s 19th-century slaves Friday morning next to the...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 14, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
The United Nations, faced with a dearth of donors, pitched a tax on the 1,200 billionaires worldwide billionaires to help raise money for development projects in the world’s poorest nations, according to Bloomberg News Placing a 1 percent levy on “individual wealth...
