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ADVOCACY CONNECTIONS – Calling All Ladies of Charity Attorneys
We as Ladies of Charity can play a role as a “Lady Lawyer of Charity” pledging to take one pro bono case a year. From Summer 2012 issue of Servicette-Summer-2012 (pdf) As Catholics, we’re called to share our time, talents and treasures with the church and our brothers...
LCUSA – Summer 2012 issue of Servicette
Summer 2012 Servicette Now Available The LCUSA begins its Annual Assembly Wednesday, September 12. See the Servicette for details of the LCUSA Leadership Team Candidates for 2013-2014. The Summer 2012 issue of the Servicette has been mailed to members. You may...
Is your “community” computer safe?
Churches may be easy targets for data theft. In a recent Church Executive article, author David A. Jones noted, "Frugal budgeting and limited resources in technological intelligence inherent with religious organizations often lead to weak security controls. The risk...
Downton Abbey fans – Bates & WWJD
What would Jesus do? What Downton Abbey Taught Me About Finger Pointing Amy Henry writes... "At this house we’re big Downton Abbey fans. Big . We watched season one four times, then cheated and had season two sent from the UK before the US release. We then...
Vincentian Family Beliefs
VinFormation presents a summary of Vincentian Family Beliefs. How well do you think the summary captures your beliefs, our beliefs? Seeing Poor and Marginalized Persons in a New Light St. Vincent’s metaphor is of a beat-up, dented, scratched, scarred, and very common...
Confessions of an accidental feminist
Rachel Held Evans writes... "I always laugh a little to myself when I receive a Google Alert informing me that someone on the internet has criticized me as a “bitter, angry woman” intent on destroying the Church with my “radical feminist agenda.” I laugh because if...
Where the Vincentian Family began – seed, lessons
Vincent de Paul found himself in a pressing situation which forced him to confront the poverty and the urgent needs of his parishioners. At the same time he became aware of the overflowing generosity of the people in that area. Their generosity, however, had to be...
Inadequate welfare humiliating: Vinnies (Australia)
"Humiliation begets greater disempowerment." Further, "...the government's refusal to lift payments was like "condemning people for not being able to walk up stairs while refusing to build a ramp" according to John Falzon, CEO of the National Council of the St Vincent...
SC Seton Hill Visit SCNY and Federation
The Sisters of Charity Federation website present a photo gallery of a historic visit of six Sisters from Korea to the Sisters of Charity of NY and the Federation. Sister Marlene Mondalek, General Superior of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill, and six Sisters from...
New pontifical website for lay Catholics worldwide
The Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Laity is positioning its website as a resource for lay men and women ahead of Pope Benedict's Year of Faith, which will kick-off in October, according to the Catholic News Agency. “It is directed to all the lay faithful that...
