by John Freund, CM | Feb 2, 2010 | Collaboration, Vincentian Family
The House of Charity was only a dream and a hope until the first week of January 2010. Three sisters from different communities in the Federation will be joining together soon to live in a house that has been formed from the Sisters of Charity Federation – a...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 1, 2010 | Collaboration, Congregation of the Mission, Daughters of Charity, Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
The Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity have opened up a joint website for their advocacy efforts via their NGO status at the UN. For Vincentian Family efforts at the UN see also the NGO of the Sisters of Charity Federation, the AIC-NGO (aka...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 1, 2010 | Collaboration, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
The newly updated international site of the Daughters of Charity features 3 videos – 2 from Haiti and one about the life of Sister Giuseppina Nicoli who was beatified in 2008.
by John Freund, CM | Jan 29, 2010 | Collaboration, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
The DC houses situated in Port-au-Prince have been severely damaged and our Sisters have become homeless having to sleep outside in tents. They are trying to give basic services (nursing care, nutrition and accompaniment) in the middle of the general chaos. As soon as...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jan 19, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, News, Systemic change, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
“As the death toll rises and tragic images stream, we cannot help but be moved by the suffering of the Haitian people today.” So read the letter from DePaul’s president, Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., President of De Paul University, last Monday...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 19, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, Evangelization, Featured, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Scott Fina offers a contrasting view to David Brooks recent New York Times editorial about the role of poverty in Haiti’s suffering from its earthquake, recently circulated over FamVin. Below he writes “My point? Haiti (like Katrina) is indeed much more a story...
