The FAMVIN Digital Network
The Vincentian Family is a movement made up of more than 160 institutions and some 4,000,000 people who follow Jesus Christ, serving the poor, as did St. Vincent de Paul, St. Louise de Marillac and many other believers who, over the last four centuries, have enriched the Vincentian charism.
The FAMVIN Digital Network serves the Vincentian Family with news, media, formation resources and more. Learn more about who we are and what we offer.
Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Daughter of Charity Begins New Apostolate at 90 Years of Age
Sister Carmel will now visit the sick poor at Seton Medical Center in Daly City where she will share her quick wit and gift of laughter with patients there. She is not sure if she will transfer her strong allegiance to her beloved Oakland A’s to the Giants of San...
Charity Awareness Week in Australia
...the Charity Awareness Luncheon... as well as other activities planned to celebrate Charity Awareness Week, gives charities and benevolent Institutions such as the St Vincent de Paul Society, the opportunity to publicly thank volunteers and major supporters who...
John Allen Writes Daily of Pope in Poland
Tim Williams CM of Australia writes that John Allen Jr, in the latest issue of National Catholic Reporter (Vol 5, No 38) writes from Poland on Some Interesting Nuggets around the edgesRead NCRonline.org daily for John Allen's reports on Pope Benedict XVI's trip to...
SVDP in Southern Australia Reimaging Its Future
ADELAIDE, May 23, 2006 (vinnies.org.au): Over the last 12 months the St Vincent de Paul Society in South Australia has been engaged in a process of Reimagining Our Good Works. Volunteers from around the State gathered in May to reflect on the challenges that the...
Compassion Magazine (Passionists) Special Issue on Immigration
Compassion, the journal of the Passionists, devoted an entire issue to the topic 'Changing Faces of Immigration'Among the topics covered... Changing faces of immigration � Thinking about immigration � Welcome, world - diversity in a parish and school � "Follow...
Changes to (Australian) Migration Law Called Cruel and Unncessary
SYDNEY, May 12, 2006 (anglicare.org.au): Anglicare Sydney�s Chief Executive Officer, Peter Kell says that the system of off-shore mandatory detention is cruel and unnecessary. �Placing asylum seekers in off-shore detention centres is an unnecessarily punitive way...
Vincentian Students Participate in ABC's Extreme Home Makeover
St. John�s University students pitched in to clean up a Queens home being rebuilt as one of the homes featured on the ABC hit TV show, �Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,� aired Sunday, May 7.Thirty-two students from the Queens and Staten Island campuses worked on...
Vatican Describes AIC
VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is the description of International Association of Charities which appears in the Directory of International Associations of the Faithful, published by the Pontifical Council for the Laity. Official name: International...
Pope Sees Parish Reorganization as Opportunity for Spiritual Renewal
VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The reorganization of parishes must be seen as an opportunity for "spiritual renewal," says Benedict XVI. The Holy Father said this on Saturday when receiving bishops of Atlantic Canada, on their five-yearly visit to Rome. In...
Catholic Worker and Pope's Encyclical
Commentaries on the encyclical have raised the question of whether the Pope's tremendous emphasis in the second section on the tradition of charity from the earliest centuries of the Church (e.g., Augustine: “If you see charity, you see the Trinity”) does not weaken...
