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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Sources for understanding Vincent
Sources for Understanding Vincent de Paul John E. Rybolt, DePaul University This paper presents and explains the main sources for understanding Vincent de Paul: his writings, biographies, contemporary witnesses, studies and iconography. For this purpose,  the material...
Ways to keep kids out of jail
Victoria, Australia,  the best when it comes to keeping kids out of jail New research has made it clear that Victoria’s youth justice system, with its focus on diversion, is effective at keeping young people out of prison.   Responding to the release of Juvenile...
Vincentian theologian reflects on welfare state
America magazine publishes a guest blog from Meghan Clark, an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at St. John’s University and member of the US Bishop's Committee on Social Justice. A longer version originally appeared on the blog Catholic Moral...
Days in the life of St. Vincent
Fr. John Rybolt provides a day-by-day listing of the known activities of Vincent de Paul from 1596 (the year of his tonsure and minor orders) to 1660 (the year of his death). Its purpose is to show graphically his activities in chronological relation to each other...
Philadelphia – City of Vincentian Murals?
According to SVDP Philadelphia, "For the past three summers, ten high school students from Brooklyn and several faculty members have been volunteering their time in the Philadelphia area. The student group stays at the St. Vincent de Paul Young Adult Center in...
The not so social gospel
James Martin offers a tongue in cheek version of this newly discovered not so social gospel. The Lazy Paralytic The Very Poorly Prepared Crowd The Rich and Therefore Blessed Young Man The Lazy Paralytic 1. When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days, it was...
Calling all mobiles – CM Mobile website
Aidan Rooney CM offers his revised and simplified CMmobile Site at http://winksite.mobi/cmglobal/reader The site above has links to mobile versions of FamVin CMGlobal VOCESVicentinas Aidan's tweets BOOKMARK on your mobile phone's browser Aidan's CMmobile Site...
Daughters of Charity: Women of the Gospel
Bishop Richard J. Skalba writes a moving tribute to the years of service provided by the Daughters of Charity from 1846 until withdrawing in 2012. Source: Website of the Catholic Herald, Â Milwaukee Diocese. "It was with genuine regret, perhaps even a touch of personal...
The Paul Ryan debate
Noted Catholic commentator and media personality Father Robert Barron picks up a theme familiar to Vincentians  and applies it very effectively to Catholic social teaching  which is coming to the forefront of political discourse today. Fr. Barron speaks of Catholic...
Sisters Run 2012 – Marathon of Chinese Sisters
There may be individual Sisters who run marathons,  but only in China is there a marathon for Sisters. there there is no event like this anywhere in the world. It is particularly odd that it would develop in China. But we are here, we are not going away, and this year...
