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Doing Good While Searching
GoodSearch.com 50% of all ad revenue generated from the site is donated to the charity of the user's choice, and the money GoodSearch donates comes from its advertisers, so it doesn't cost the users or the organizations a penny. The idea behind this excellent search...
145 Members of Vincentian Family in Latin America gather in Mexico
145 represenatives of the Vincentian Family from 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries participate in the 5th Latin American Meeting of Vincentian Family, taking place from February 16 by 20, 2009 at the headquarters of the Mexican Bishops Conference in the State...
Nursing before Nightingale – Daughters of Charity –
The Daughters of Charity were skilled nurses long before Florence Nightingale. In Say Little, Do Much, Sioban Nelson, says the popular view that nursing invented itself in the second half of the nineteenth century is historically inaccurate and dismissive of the...
“Let us be servants of the poor.”
St. Vincent gloried in the title "Servants of the Poor" as occasional famvin poster Susan Stabile reminds readers of her personal blog Creo en Dios. In these times of economic crisis she very simply connects the dots between Jesus, Vincent, the social teching of the...
April 16-19 “Personal” and “structural” appoaches to Systemic Change
The keynote speakers at the North American Vincentian Family Gathering April 16-19, Allison Boisvert and Eddie Friel present insights into different but deeply inter-related dimensions of "systemic change" - the personal and structural. This week we will feature...
A virtual experience of trying to escape homelessness
Experience the life situation of a homeless pereson in this online game called "Hobson's Choice". This one of a series Vincentian formation resources being developed by the folks at VinFormation.
Resources for feast of Francis Regis Clet, CM – Feb. 18
February 18 is the feast of Francis Regis Clet (1748-1820), a saint who only wanted a watch... and some money to follow it. As he was fleeing persecution at age 70 he wrote... "I want none of this world's goods, apart from a decent watch; only one of the ones you sent...
“Training the trainers” Vincentian Leadership Program
The Vincentian Leadership Program (VLP) in Manila, a collaborative endeavour of De Paul University-Chicago (DPU), Adamson University-Manila (AdU) and the Vincentian Center for Asia Pacific (VINCAP) to promote the Vincentian legacy and leadership. It will be held at...
Sisters of Charity of Halifax approved February 17, 1856
On February 17, 1856 Pope Pius IX approved the Sisters of Charity of Halifax. Their web site is http://www.schalifax.ca/index.html
Telling the story of the SVDP in Los Angeles
Another example of using YouTube to tell the Vncentian story. Jim Weiss, President of the SVDP in LA presents the many face of those who suffer poverty and those who work with them.
