by John Freund, CM | Jun 22, 2009 | Collaboration, Daughters of Charity, Featured, Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
“You have to start somewhere”  and college students teach the Daughters and the SVDP one place to start for systemic change. “Sex Trafficking in Macon, Georgia?” is the lead story in the current joint newsletter of the Daughters of Charity and...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 20, 2009 | Congregation of the Mission, Vincentian Family
St Vincent’s Parish Ashfield will be a host site for the Year of St Paul National e-Conference sponsored by the Diocese of Broken Bay and the Australian Bishops Conference.  For more info on what this National E-Conference is about, go to the links  Year of...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 18, 2009 | Vincentian Family
National Council of the SSVDP does not have a Headquarter for the meetings and they even do not have resources for the payment of the registration of their Statutes. In order to obtain resources for the continuity of their activities, the National Council of Paraguay...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 17, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
The definitive biography, Elizabeth Bayley Seton 1774-1821, originated from a doctoral dissertation written nearly sixty years ago by Annabelle Melville, at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Little did she anticipate that two years later in 1951,...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 15, 2009 | Congregation of the Mission, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Vincentian Family
What is Vincentian spirituality? What elements, practices, approaches are essential to it as a spirituality? Fr. Dan Borlik CM reflects on this in his Vincentian Encyclopedia article Spirituality of the Poor? Spirituality of Justice?Fr. Dan Borlik, CM is currently...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 15, 2009 | Congregation of the Mission, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
In “Shared Sickness” TB in the Ngobe Family Fr. Joe Fitzgerald, CM uses video as part of his  doctoral project to tell the story of how this disease affects the indigenous Ngobe people of Panama.