Pope John PAul II – Praying for Peace

FROM OUR HOLY FATHER: “Prayer for peace is not an afterthought to the work of peace. It is of the very essence of building the peace of order, justice, and freedom. To pray for peace is to open the human heart to the inroads of God’s power to renew all...

Vincentian Family Responses in Time of War

St. Vincent was in the forefront on war relief. In this spirit I have set up this section on www.famvin.org dedicated to perspectives on the war and relief from the perspective of the Vincentian Family. There will no doubt be abundant news on the internet concerning...

Vincent on Liberation

From the archives of famvin… an article from “Vincentian Notebooks” Vincent was touched by the extreme misery of those afflicted and devastated by illness, war, hunger and epidemic.  He tried to free them from this misery and sought ways to lead them...

Ozanam on Strife

Someone has sent me a loose translation of two letters of Ozanam taken from a French work “”Saint Vincent de Paul et l’armée”, Ed. du Cedre, Paris, 1975. “Here is what Blessed Federico Ozanam (1813-1853), founder of the Society of Saint...