by annaread | Aug 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
Oxfam has made available a .pdf of a map of areas affected by the quake; it was provided to them by the Sistema Nacional de Defensa Civil Perú. Also, Catholic News Service has a round-up of stories of life after the disaster.
by annaread | Aug 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
Bishop Guido Breña López of the Diocese of Ica is quoted extensively in a report about the crisis in Perú; read the story.
by annaread | Aug 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
After Dorothy Day visited Nova Scotia in 1938, she wrote about miners and steel workers who told her of their decision to start a Saint Vincent De Paul Society to, in their words, “build up the idea of mutual charity and mutual aid.” Read more here.
by John Freund, CM | Jul 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
Father Bernard Koch, C.M., recently published in Cahiers Saint Vincent, Bulletin des Lazaristes de France (nº 199), an article entitled “The Political Action of Saint Vincent.†“(Vincent de Paul) realized that in order to reform the Church and the clergy, as...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
Wednesday, July 4, marks the Feast Day of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, a young member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul early in twentieth century Italy. Blessed Pier joined the Society when he was seventeen years old in 1919, and remained an active member the...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
Br. David Steindl-Rast has a beautiful video reflection on gratefulness (link no longer available at this address) that is very appropriate food for thought on this Independence Day USA. (It also serves as an example of how YouTube.com can be a vehicle of...
