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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Vincentian Business Ethics Conference
Academics from the United States, Europe and farther afield will analyse and discuss the challenges that now face society as a result of the global downturn, due in part to the breaches in public trust and ethical behaviour in business, politics and other social...
Vincentian priest honored by Academy of Sciences and Arts
This year the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg awarded the “Tolerance Award” to the Argentinian-Slovenian Lazarist Father Pedro Opeka CM . Opeka , who works as a missionary in Madagascar helped make the life of about 100,000 Malagasies more dignified,...
Formation Friday – Vincentian Stocking stuffers
"Tis the season to give... games!" St. VIncent is quoted as saying we " should mix the useful and the agreeable." VinFormation offers just that - games that provide an opportunity to test knowledge and skills while gently educating players about various aspects of...
The unsanitized first Christmas…
The first Christmas. It rattles a marriage. It exiles a family. It endangers lives. And it provokes a madman to murder. The brisk descriptions in the New Testament fail to capture what must have been, for Mary and Joseph and many others, a bewildering, terrifying...
Leave a legacy this Christmas
No... not money ... but reconciliation. Igniter Media offers an insight into the lasting legacy of reconciliation. Resolving any conflict is a hard thing to do well, especially within your own family. Ultimately though, pursuing conflict resolution is an opportunity...
Sing Christmas Novena with Daughters of Charity
Listen to and Sing the Christmas Novena with Us It is a tradition of the Daughters of Charity to sing a special novena (nine-day prayer) in preparation for Christmas. This is done at our evening prayer time. Each day is the same except the antiphon for...
Feminine insight for Advent
A sampler... That terrifying first Christmas "The news of Jesus’ arrival confused Mary; caused Joseph to consider divorce; and, in King Herod, commenced a genocidal fury. Once Jesus is born, Mary and Joseph have to flee Bethlehem to evade Herod’s assassins. The Holy...
Vincentian Connection
The Vincentian Connection: December 2013 is a fine example of using new media to tell the story.
Benedict defends Francis economic critique!
The blog EthikaPolitika reports on Pope Emeritus Benedict's vigorous defense of Pope Francis regarding accusations of Marxism stemming from anti-market language employed in Evangelii Gaudium. The article points to a statement overlooked by the mainstream media in...
80 years a Daughter – Sr. Hilda Gleason
"Hearts rejoice in Sr. Hilda Gleason's 80 years vocation as a Daughter of Charity. Sister Hilda Gleason celebrated her 80th anniversary as a Daughter of Charity in October at Villa St. Michael, Emmitsburg, MD. Many of us remember Sister Hilda as president of...
