CM Wants To Be Last Filipino Out of Beirut

Fr. Agustin “Gestie” Advincula, CM was the voice heard over the airwaves, urging government action on the plight of Filipinos trapped in the war zone. His was also the soothing voice providing reassurance to anxious mothers, spouses and children of the country’s...

CM's Leaving Parish After 170 Years

Vincentian priests and brothers have had a presence in Cape Girardeau since the parish was founded in 1836. Two years before that, the Rev. John Timon rode from Perryville to Cape Girardeau on horseback to hold Mass. Two years after the first Vincentian priest arrived...

SVDP in County Mayo, Ireland

For more than 26 years Martin Waters has made the misery of others his daily concern. As president of the Castlebar conference of St Vincent de Paul, his has been one of the compassionate faces of a caring organisation reaching out to hundreds of people on their...

Oregon SVDP Opens Housing Units

St. Vincent de Paul is no stranger to big-time housing projects. Its most recent effort, a building in downtown Eugene, opened in 2003 and houses 54 units in the upper levels.EUGENE — Frank Lloyd Wright said, “All fine architectural values are human values, else not...

Tucson Teens (SVDP) Help in New Orleans

Youth St. Vincent DePaul organization at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Parishin Tucson working in New Orleans.”About two weeks after the hurricane, I was talking to my dad, trying to figure out what we could do,” said Sam Zelinski, the primary force...
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