by Beth | Apr 2, 2003 | Justice and Peace
Statement of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM) And the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) Regarding the War with Iraq March 20, 2003 We are deeply saddened by the course of events that have led our nation to war with Iraq. After...
by Beth | Mar 31, 2003 | Justice and 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...
by Beth | Mar 30, 2003 | Justice and Peace
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...
by Beth | Mar 30, 2003 | Justice and Peace
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the USA has a collection of statements by religious leaders around the world regarding Iraq.Most of these statements from the Vatican and other national Bishop’s Conferences were made prior to the formal...
by Beth | Mar 27, 2003 | Justice and Peace
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...
by Beth | Mar 27, 2003 | Justice and Peace
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...