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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Effective Use of Internet Key to Church Communications
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As the U.S. bishops' new communications chief, Helen Osman said one of her concerns will be how the church can use the Internet effectively to communicate with Catholics, especially the post-Vatican II generation. She said she would like to see the...
A Portent of Things to Come?
Young people list the breakdown of the family as the most pressing issue facing their generation. The Mirror of Justice blog, comprised of a group of legal scholars devoted to exploring the implications of Catholic legal thought, has a post reporting on a survey of...
Text of Fr. Ginete’s Presentation
His text is available for dowload in Word format.
April Edition of NUNTIA of the Congregation of the Mission
The April edition of NUNTIA, the international journal of the Congrgation of the Mission, is now available online.
Systemic Change and the Vincentian Family – Patricia de Nava
Text of the presentation by Patricia de Nava at the Vincentian Family Gathering follows. This presentation also received a standing ovation. In the near future it will be available as a podcast and a movie. THE INTERNATIONAL VINCENTIAN FAMILY Acting together against...
Keynote Presentation Elicits Standing Ovation at Vincentian Meeting in USA
More than 180 people gave a standing ovation to Fr. Manny Ginete, CM as the initial keynote speaker for his insightful multimedia presentation on the theme of expanding the circle of solidarity. Movingly he treated the following five themes:Globalization and the World...
John Allen On Issue of Poverty at CELAM Meeting With Pope
John Allen will be traveling on the Papal plane offers this assessment of one of the key issues facing half the world's Catholic living in the area represented by CELAM. Poverty: According to the United Nations Human Development Report, Latin America has the most...
Magic Back – 3rd Annual Vincentian Family Gathering
Approximately 175 followers of Vincent and Louise gathered in San Francisco for the Third Annual Vincentian Family Gathering May 2-6. After the opening meal Dale Whitten presented a brief history of the Gathering and a short video featuring interviews of...
Sisters of Charity of New York Elect New Leadership
Over the weekend of April 28/29, the Sisters of Charity of New York elected their leadership team for the next four years. The Congregation was represented by 141 delegates who convened at Mount Saint Vincent in the northwest Bronx, which has been the Congregation's...
Sr. Angela DC and Scotland Yard
18 April 2007 - Recently a rather curious news item appeared in the “La Stampaâ€, (a Turin newspaper): Some civil servants from Scotland Yard Police Force, London came to Turin to interview Sr Angela Pozzoli, a Daughter of the Charity, who for the past ten years...
