by John Freund, CM | Nov 27, 2011 | Social, Social Media
Xt3, the Catholic Social Networking site, announces the release of their 2011 Advent Calendar! The annual Xt3 Advent Calendar is an online Catholic resource for youth groups, parishes, schools, and for your own personal Advent journey. This year’s calendar is...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2010 | Collaboration, Featured, Formation, Social, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
What did we learn from the first meeting of the Vincentian Family in cyberspace? It seems like quite a bit. Before we fast forward to the future lets look at the statistics. In its short life VirtualVins.net was viewed from 290 different cities in 27 countries with...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 31, 2009 | News, Social
“We have just made the Internet much more accessible to millions of people in regions such as Asia, the Middle East and Russia.” The body in charge of assigning the world’s Internet users their online addresses on Friday said it had agreed to allow...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 15, 2009 | News, Social
The Finnish government has become the first in the world to make broadband internet access a legal right. With 96% of citizens online the mandate was necessary in order to improve the availability of internet in Finland’s remote rural areas, improve the quality...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 16, 2009 | Featured, Formation, Justice and Peace, Social, Vincentian Family
That is the opinion of Sr. Margaret Fitzpatrick, SC in this weeks installment in the Lent for Systemic Change series. She is a Sister of Charity and President of St. Thomas Aquinas College in New York. She points out how the book can be used in various settings as a...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 7, 2008 | Featured, Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Social, Systemic change, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
In this second week of Advent famvin.org presents Joesph Foley, CM telling the story of a United Nations project, called “Millennium Villages†and suggesting that, in meeting the challenge of poverty, the Vincentian Family and the “Millennium Villages projectâ€...
