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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Daughters website in UK revamped
Maureen Tinkler DC writes that the web site for the Daughters of Charity in Great Britain has been re-vamped. Take a look at: http://www.daughtersofcharity.org.uk
Compassion fatigue? Here’s Vincent’s take on it
This week well-known columnist Ron Rolheiser, OMI looks at Vincent's view of how to deal with becoming worn out by the demands of service. Read the column. Hat tip to Tim Williams, C.M. at Vincentians Australia News
Evelyn Williams, SC receives Elizabeth Seton Award
Sister of Charity of Halifax Evelyn Williams has been awarded the 2008 Elizabeth Seton Award at the Mount Saint Vincent Motherhouse. Sister Williams, founder and administrator of the Seton Spirituality Centre in Terence Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, has been a teacher,...
Thrift stores help as people try to cut costs
The manager of a Society of Saint Vincent de Paul thrift store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin USA says the number of people looking for used clothing and furniture at the store has increased. "You look at the economy and you say, 'Where are we going?' It's scary," she says....
Vincentian Family Gathering featured in diocesan newspaper
The recent New Orleans gathering of the US Vincentian Family is featured in Intermountain Catholic, the newspaper of the Diocese of Salt Lake City. Christine Young, the author, leads a new Ladies of Charity chapter in Salt Lake City (previous famvin article) and...
An “evolving dialog” about intelligent life
Congregation of the Mission Father Jack Minogue, a physicist and ethicist and past president of DePaul University, talked with a news blogger at the Chicago Tribune about what the Vatican’s chief astronomer said last week about the search for intelligent life beyond...
Soup kitchen marks 25 years of service: 10,000 meals a month
It's an old garage with a restaurant permit. On May 18, 1983 the Saint Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen opened in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania USA. Since then, every day it has served a midday meal: 40 on that first day; up to 400 on a day, since, for a monthly average of...
Transforming Waste to Feed the Starving
More than 25% of the food available for consumption in the United States gets thrown away. If we could recover a quarter of that waste, we could feed 20 million people. An estimated 27% of food available for consumption in the United States ends up in the trash. A...
Vincentian Lay Missionaries – leaving for Ethiopia
A new group of Vincentian Lay Missionaries will be leaving for Ethiopia on June 27 with Fr. Aidan Rooney, C.M. A second group will travel to Kenya with Sr. Mary Beth Kubera, DC, in August. VLM-USA is a growing community of current and former Vincentian young adult...
Technology leads to spread of Vincent’s vision
Collaboration fostered by a Vincentian priest, some Daughters of Charity and discovery of a connection with the Sisters of Charity led Kristy Eanes to found a group of Ladies of Charity in Central Arkansas. It began with a request to set up a computer lab and an...
