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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
APPEAL FOR EARTHQUAKE RELIEF IN CHINA
The General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission has recently received an appeal from our confrere in China, Joseph Loftus, who is raising funds on line through his website in partnership with Catholic organizations at the scene. They are working diligently, but...
St. Vincent de Paul Image Archive
John Rybolt, CM writes., "We are happy to announce the St. Vincent de Paul Image Archive, hosted by DePaul University. It is at: http://stvincentimages.cdm.depaul.edu/. Its purpose is to make available the largest possible collection of Vincentian images. "For the...
Systemic Change Conference in Westminster Cathedral
On 13th June 2008, around 120 members of the Vincentian Family here in Britain gathered in Westminster Cathedral Hall, Central London to hear keynote addresses from Fr Robert Maloney CM and Sr Ellen Flynn DC. They highlighted the work of the International Commission...
Systemic Change Strategy 13: Make models that work for the community
The fourteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Fr Joseph P. Foley, C.M. writes: Systemic Change Strategy 13: Construct structural and...
SSVDP Finds More Middle Class Seeking Charity Aid
In Ireland, the SSVDP reports that middle class couples with mortgages are the fastest growing group seeking charitable assistance and advice. Rising energy costs and food bills mean that "financial difficulties are spilling out and crossing socio-economic groups."...
YouTube videos on the SVDP-USA site
The St. Vincent dePaul Society site has links to number of vidoes related to the plight of the poor and the work of the Society. They also have their own YouTube channel svdpusa. See also the Vincentian Encyclopedia for listings of other Vincentian related videos on...
SVDP in Australia take on predatory lenders
Testifying at a Senate (Australia) hearing St Vincent de Paul Society's financial counsellors have found that up to 95 per cent of their clients are significantly hit by bank penalty fees and this had pushed some people over the financial edge when they had been...
Mother Seton: a “Saint of Lower Manhattan”
Mother Elizabeth Seton's story is a highlight of a National Catholic Reporter survey of "saintly Americans" who walked the streets of New York. Sister of Charity Regina Bechtle, an expert on Mother Seton's life and co-editor of her Collected Writings, is quoted in the...
“See the world from the perspective of the poor”
"When one is engaged in face-to-face charity and journeying with people the wider issues inevitably arise." Speaking a meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Society Bob McKeon who has lived in the inner city by choice for 30 years sees how one thing leads to another....
Food and high tech: together in service to the poor
St. John's Bread and Life soup kitchen in Brooklyn, NY, founded 26 years ago by Daughter of Charity Bernadette Szymczak (d. 1998) and still served by the Daughters and a Sister of Charity, is featured in today's New York Times. Technology has an important role in...
