by John Freund, CM | Dec 12, 2014 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
SISTER RECEIVES HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD Sister Angelina Martz of Saint John, New Brunswick is the recipient of the 2014 John Peters Humphrey Human Rights Award for decades of active commitment to social justice. “ Sister Angie” accepted the award on international Human...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 11, 2014 | Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
Still very much alive … growing at 170 years – 2015 marks the 170th anniversary of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in the United States. On November 20, 1845, a group of nineteen Catholic laymen and one priest met in the school room attached to the...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 9, 2014 | Vincentian Family
The Leadership Team of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul gather in prayerul reflection on their Mission Statement and provide visual insights into their past and present. Be sure to visit their website which make heavy use of well-produced YouTube...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 9, 2014 | Association of the Miraculous Medal, Vincentian Family
Superior General – Future of the Miraculous Medal – “I request that the various branches of our Vincentian Family, particularly those with a special devotion to the Miraculous Medal to pray, reflect, and discuss how to promote awareness and further...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 8, 2014 | Vincentian Family
“The joys and hopes” – Gaudium et Spes (Vatican II) begins its 50th year – How does the church based on a document two thousand years old, relate that past to the present?” There are two joyful authoritative answers to that “Gaudium et...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 6, 2014 | Disasters and Responses, Vincentian Family
HAGUPIT Typhoon Hagupit is now a super-typhoon and most predict that it will make land-fall over the very same areas hard-hit by Yolanda. The CNN resident meteorologist has just characterized it as the strongest of super-typhoon this year. The following is a list of...
