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Catholic Relief Services and KONY 2012
Many in the United States are learning about Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army through an internet video that has attracted tens of millions of views. Catholic Relief Services has been working for years to help the victims of Kony and the LRA. CRS officially...
Louise – Offering a Gospel spirituality
In part four of “Louise de Marillac, Formator of the Laity” by Sister Maria Angeles Infante Barrera, DC the focus is on her on offering a Gosspel spirituality Louise de Marillac was a spiritual woman who lived a profound interior life that enabled her to experience...
Australian Director reflects on Louise as a mystic
Against a background of the gospel account of the Transfiguration on the Second Sunday of Lent (Mk 9:2-10), this Reflection by Tim Williams CM looks at Louise's "Lumiere" expereince and draws on quotations from an article by Benito Martinez Betanzos CM titled ...
Daughters of Charity (California) to join Ascension Health
The Daughters of Charity Health System, which operates Seton Medical Center and several other Bay Area hospitals, has signed a memorandum of understanding to join the nation's largest Catholic health care system, Ascension Health Alliance. So writes the SanFrancisco...
Watching Frederic with awe!
Sr. Kieran Kneaves DC writes of the Special performance "Apostle of Truth" from St. Philip Neri Newman Center Eastern Illinois University "I sat in awe as I saw the heart and soul of Frederic Ozanam come alive before my eyes." I watched as Frederic was:...
Zafen and “Translators without borders”
Raising funds to finance deserving projects is something every non-profit must master, and the challenge is exponential when your donors are global. That was the issue Zafènencountered when it launched in 2010. But it wasn’t a conundrum this online Haitian...
SVDP achieves “consultative status” at UN
We are pleased to inform you that we have been officially admitted as an UN-NGO member of ECOSOC under the category of Special Consultative Status with no voting rights. This consultative status provides NGOs like us with access to not only ECOSOC but also to its...
Louise missioned for formation
In part three of “Louise de Marillac, Formator of the Laity” the focus is on her being sent on mission. 3 The formator sent on mission (1629) 3.1 The travels of the formator 3.2 Formation and the activities of the Confraternities 3.3 Organizing the Confraternity at...
Louise being raised to her niche in St. Peter’s
The Vincentian History Researchers Network share this photograph of the final preparations to raise Louise toe last internal niche inside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The Vincentiana Material Culture collection at DePaul University recently aquired a news photo of...
Vinnies youth (Australia) host first social justice day
The inaugural St Vincent de Paul Society Schools Social Justice Day on February 23 has been hailed a success. The society's state liaison manager Carolyn Sauvage said the event was organised and run by Vinnies' youth staff and state youth representative Kathleen...
