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St. Vincent Health System & Wal-Mart Partner to Provide Health Care
"Our vision of the future is to transform healthcare for our community...and the clinics that we will operate in Wal-Mart Supercenters [in Arkansas] will be a great solution for patients who come to us for health and healing," says St. Vincent Health System's...
Resources for Lent
The Passionists have sites to use on the Web during Lent: Meditations and Prayers by Victor Hoagland, C.P., several different Stations of the Cross, including one in Spanish, Stations of the Cross for children and their families to pray together, Heart Prayer for...
“No way, Vinnies are for people who really need help”
That was a woman's instant reaction when an agency offered a contact with the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Canberra, Australia. Soaring mortgage interest rates there, as around the world, are hitting hard. Read the story.
Hospitals have award-winning Web site
Personal stories form the basis of a hospital Web site that has won a National Service Industry Advertising Gold Award. St. Vincent Hospitals in Indiana, which is sponsored in part by four provinces of the Daughters of Charity, hosts MyStory.stvincent.org: inspiring...
Spokane SSVDP service center to close
Lacking funds to continue operations, the Family Service Center sponsored by the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Spokane, Washington USA will close at the end of the month. Financial pressures are one issue; the board president also cited the aging and declining...
Superior General’s letter for Lent, 2008
As always, God invites us to holiness in community. We need to be careful, as we share the message of Lent with those we serve, that we always encourage Lent’s effectiveness in ourselves. Read the letter.
Thursday is feast day of Rosalie Rendu, DC
The feast day of Daughter of Charity Blessed Rosalie Rendu coming on Thursday brings to mind these interesting links: a prayerful reflection on her life at the site of the Irish Vincentians, the Rosalie Rendu Center in East Palo Alto, California, and this .pdf...
Opportunities flourish at Perryville high school
In 2007 St. Vincent High School in Perryville, Missouri USA sent an astonishing one hundred per cent of its students on to post-secondary education with more than $750,000 in scholarships. Congregation of the Mission Father Joseph Williams and others reflect on the...
150 years of service in Santa Barbara
This year marks 150 years since the arrival in Santa Barbara, California USA of the first Daughters of Charity, who had been asked by Bishop Thaddeus Amat, CM to start a school and orphanage. Read the local newspaper's story about the anniversary.
Another Christo Rey school?
A feasibility study has been begun to determine whether a new school in the Christo Rey network makes sense for Cincinnati. The newspaper article calls the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati the "driving force" behind the initiative. Read the newspaper article. The...
