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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Contrasting approaches to social change – CM and SVDP
Frederic Ozanam and Fr. Etienne, sometimes referred to as the second founder of the Congregation, took quite contrasting views toward social change and renewal. Fr.Jaime Correra CM writes that with regard to social change "(one has) the painful impression that the...
Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops Who Tweet
We’re in the middle of the biggest communication shift since the advent of the printing press. Facebook has over 500 million users. Two billion YouTube videos are watched every day. And last year alone, Americans sent 1.8 trillion text messages. What does this all...
New Catholic Media
Vincentian Family in AMERICA Magazine
Why We Need to Canonize More Lay Saints Ever since the Second Vatican Council spoke of the “universal call to holiness,” there has been a move to recognize more lay men and women as saints, as models of sanctity for lay Catholics. Several contemporary saints have...
“Vincentian Family Together Building Bridges Out of Poverty”
Join other members of the Vincentian Family to explore the theme "Vincentian Family Together Building Bridges Out of Poverty." The Vincentian Family Collaborators Committee invites all members of the Vincentian Family in United States and Canada to gather October...
Vincentian Family $25,000 challenge grant for Haitian scholarships
Fr. Robert Maloney writes "As Zafèn begins its second year, our micro-finance project in Haiti is preparing another fundraising initiative to educate Haiti’s children. The Zafèn team would be very grateful if you would give this message wide circulation within your...
June Bulletin of Vincentian Marian Youth
Cleber Oliveria introduces this edition of the Bulletin of the Internationaal Vincentian Marian Youth with reflection on the theme of service and mission. The rest of the issue reports on the many and varied activities of the JMV around the world, news from the...
Sister Enrichetta Alfieri beatified
Sister Enrichetta Alfieri (1891-1951), from the Sisters of Charity of Saint Jeanne Antide, who for years was involved in pastoral work in the city prisons and brought reconciliation before, during and after the Second World War was beatified. Sister Enrichetta was an...
Reorganization of DC provinces in the USA and Italy
The international website of the daughters of Charity reports on efforts toward "reconfiguration" or reorganization provinces in Italy and the United States. The Province of Saint Louise, resulting from the merger of four provinces in the United States, will be...
“All things Vincentian” unveiled
DePaul University Libraries announces "Welcome to All Things Vincentian [note: this page is no longer available], a research portal bringing together digital Vincentian source material, journal articles, image collections, archives, exhibits and online conversation."...