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Most successful anti-poverty drive in history
The Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs), are the most successful global anti-poverty push in history. Governments, international organizations, and civil society groups around the world have helped to cut in half the world’s extreme poverty rate. More girls are in...
Snake handling and more
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), July 7, 2013 – Is 66, 10-14c; Gal 6, 14-18; Lk 10, 1-12. 17-20 Father, into your hands I commend my spirit (Lk 23, 46) We suffer. We are injured and we get hurt. We are not exempt from afflictions and infirmities. We are old...
Gettysburg at 150 – Daughters of Charity
Sr. Denise LaRock does her own re-enactment on the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Angels of the Battlefield. She explains... 150 years ago the Union soldiers encamped on the property of the Daughters of Charity in Emmitsburg, Maryland. ...
Marillac Center – Seeing both tree and forest
The story of Lourdes - the person, not the shrine! Continuing the new series illustrating recent examples of systemic change Patricia deNava, past International President of the AIC (Ladies of Charity in USA), writes.. "In order to understand Marillac, it is...
Mary’s Meals – an idea whose time has come
A few months ago Fr. Robert Maloney wrote of Mary's Meals as an example of systemic change that works. He told the story …”a simple idea that works by providing a daily meal in a place of education, chronically poor children are attracted to the classroom where they...
Daughters of Charity Civil War museum
According to the local paper "Tourists are flocking en masse to the home of the peace-filled Daughters of Charity property in Emmitsburg, just as the U.S. Army did in 1863." The story continues... The new Charity Afire museum opened Friday at the National Shrine of...
What Benedict stored, Francis scatters
What Benedict stored, Francis scatters…Some Reflections on the Papal Transition An address by Fr. Thomas Rosica to over 500 Catholic journalists and those working in Catholic Media in Canada and the United States at the Presidential Medallion Awards Luncheon of the...
Climb every mountain! (in the bible)
BustedHalo asks "What is the significance of mountains in the Bible? "Mountains are mentioned more than 500 times in the Bible. While they have a significant symbolic value, mountains first and foremost were part of the physical landscape of biblical times. So, put...
Vincentians – Who are we? How are we doing? What’s next?
Who are we? How are we doing? What do we need to do? These are the questions implicit in the two-week meeting of the Provincial leaders of the Congregation of the Mission. They will represent more than 3,000 Vincentian priests and brothers working in 50 provinces in...
Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati: The Courage to Choose the Narrow Path
Our new presentation on Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati: many photos of Pier Giorgio help tell the story, interspersed with periodic suggestions for meditation and examination of conscience.