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Newsletter of the Sisters of Charity Federation NGO Office
The December newsletter-december-2008 of the activities of the NGO office of the Sisters of Charity Federarion is now available in pdf. format.
Behind the scenes of “Doubt”
The Sisters of Charity NY newly revised website has a feature with background behind the Pulitizer-prize winning play based on a true story of a Sister of Charity. Meet Sr. Margaret McEntee, SC upon whom the play was based.
News of the SVDP in Thailand
The Society of St. VIncent de Paul in Thailand has a very informative blog in English devoted to their activities. It also has some fine picture of recent visit of the International President as well as othe picutres of their work and worship
November Bulletin of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
In its November international Bulletin the Society fo St. Vincent de Paul reports on a special fund for disaster victims in Brazil, its "Mobility Project" and the 16th edition of Confeder@tioNews #16
Bl. Marcantonio Durando, CM – early advocate of in-home hospice care.
In addition to being recognized for his holiness he founded a community dedicated to in-home hospice care for the dying as well as a school dedicated to preparing priests for service in the missions (think enculturation). His feast is celebrated on December 10. See...
Millennium Villages, an innovative approach to poverty
In this second week of Advent famvin.org presents Joesph Foley, CM telling the story of a United Nations project, called “Millennium Villages†and suggesting that, in meeting the challenge of poverty, the Vincentian Family and the “Millennium Villages projectâ€...
Actress Meryl Streep moved by ‘extraordinary’ nuns – Sisters of Charity
Streep researched the history of the Sisters of Charity and wore a wool gabardine replica of their habit with its distinctive bonnet. Before filming “Doubt,†the film version of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer-winning play, “We went up to Saint Vincent’s...
Vincent Lebbe, CM, Saint Paul of modern China, prophetic voice
“ Our brothers of the old world should be taught that China is the country of the future, of the illimited possibilities. That if, as it might be, it resists to the actual crisis and survives to it, it is called to play an important and unexpected part in the...
Update to “The Life and Times of Frederic Ozanam”
On the FamVin Australia Site, Lisa Bright has posted an update to the Life and Times of Frederic Ozanam. This is from material prepared by The Blessed Frederic Ozanam Institute of Spirituality (2003), St. Vincent de Paul Society NSW The material covers Ozanam amd his...
November issue of NUNTIA of the Congregation of the Mission
NUNTIAÂ (nuntia-2008-11) of the Congregation of the Mission recounts the activities of the General Curia and reports from various Provinces around the world.
