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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Vincentian talks art, spirituality
Muralist Br. Mark elder writes... "How do folkies! It’s a new season and I’m ready to get to it at ‘The Buffalo Bro ½ Hour’! I wento out to the ranch and completed a new mural for Munroe hall here at DePaul. I’m going to bring themes on Visual art, Spiritualty,...
Brothers of Charity awarded 65,000 €
On September 18, the psychiatric centre of the Brothers of Charity in Bukavu received the triannual Caritas International – Deckers Award because of the remarkable pioneering work in mental health care in Congo’s war-torn South Kivu Province. The psychiatric centre,...
Halifax Sisters – Meeting “Special Needs”
For more than 50 years, Sister Ruth Anne has been passionately helping children with special needs stay at home and in community. Sister Ruth Anne admits her patience must be “God-given” or she couldn’t do the work she is called to do. That patience, her special...
Formation Fridays – The Vincentian Family in North America
The week's suggestion for our new series "Formation Fridays" is a short presentation of the various branches of the Vincentian Family in North America. You just might be surprised at how many branches of the Vincentian family minister in North America. We hope you...
Pope Francis’ major media innovation
What would you say is the major media innovation of Pope Francis? L’Osservatore Romano writes "I believe that the major innovation consists in his ability to make himself understood by people of every origin. " “More than 9,300,000 followers and, thanks to retweets,...
The Pope Francis Interview
So many words! So much spin! All set in motion by a 10,000 word interview with Pope Francis. No doubt the torrent will pick up pace. In places the interview seems to echo the words of another Pope some 50 years ago. “Scrape the barnacles of history off the bottom of...
Vincent and Louise – Croatia to Oceania
Formed and upheld and by their spiritual founders St. Vincent de Paul and St Mother Louise de Marillac in spirit, charism and Holy Rules, the Sisters of Charity of Zagreb brought the flame of Vincentian charism first to Croatia and the countries of the southeastern...
Emmitsburg’s Prequel
Mother Seton arrived at the house on Paca Street the day of the dedication of the Seminary Chapel in 1808. She, her three daughters, and several other girls called the Paca Street house their home for only one year, 1808 to 1809. During that year, she befriended a...
25,000 Women,Teens, Mobile phones and Micro-finance
Perhaps an unlikely pairing of topics. But the Center for Financial Inclusion describes how these concepts can be dynamically related. "If you want your message to be heard, go to where your intended audience is. If that intended audience is teenagers in the U.S.,...
The Francis Chronicles
Pope Francis is certainly having an impact with his simplicity and humility. People across a wide spectrum of believers, unbelievers and sceptics are paying attention. With The Francis Chronicles, reports on the ministry of the world's parish priest, the NCR has...
