by John Freund, CM | May 5, 2014 | Pope
Is Pope Francis a Vincentian? Not explicitly, perhaps. But in his call for a Church “that is poor, and is for the poor” – that is, for a Church that identifies closely with the poor – and in his insistence that this entails personal, loving service to our brothers and...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 29, 2014 | Pope, Vincentian Family
The Surprising Humor of St. John XXIII – Father James Martin. SJ writes on the US Bishops blog… One night, in the late 1980s, during a retreat as a first-year Jesuit novice, I was poking around the retreat house library when I should have been praying. By...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2014 | Pope
In his homily during the canonization Pope Francis highlighted things he learned from the two saints according to RomeReports POPE FRANCIS “These were two men of courage, filled with the parrhesia of the Holy Spirit, and they bore witness before the Church and...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2014 | Daughters of Charity, Pope
Some Vincentian Trivia on St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII (courtesy of Karl Michael Hila, SVDP International Youth Representative) On St. John Paul II – He was a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and he was also the one who beatified Bl. Frederic...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 25, 2014 | Daughters of Charity, Pope
An extraordinary relic of John Paul II held by Daughters Of Charity. Sister Amelia Cicconofri, D.C. Sister Servant of the Regina Mundi Provincial House of Daughters of Charity, presents and explains the relic they are taking care of. It is a T-shirt which John Paul...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 29, 2014 | Pope
The Vatican, through the pope’s press spokesman, announced that Pope Francis is working on his first encyclical, dealing with the environment. Not surprising that he chose this topic since it is a theme he has often broached. On March 16, 2013, Francis stated he...
