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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
International SVDP Invited To Reflect on Pope's Encyclical
... we that should be the apostles of Charity! Why then not to start with our Conferences, where the encyclical could become the object of a spiritual reading and meditation, one paragraph after the other, at the beginning of the Conference?Let’s bring this...
New Video from the Superior General – Travels in Africa
The latest in the series Where In the World Is the Superior General is now online.It is available both as a video and in textual transcript. To view and/or read all of Fr. Greg's reports, visit Fr. Greg Reflects. These reports are also available en spanish at the...
Vincentian Marian Youth on the DaVinci Code
The International Secretariat of the Vincentian Marian Youth has posted a reflection on the DaVinci Code and invites youth to share their opinions.What is your stand regarding all these? What do you think should we, young Catholics, do about this? With regards to this...
Sirius Satellite To Add Catholic Channel
According to the New YOrk Times...To an on-air lineup that features the likes of Howard Stern, Martha Stewart and Maxim Radio, insert the baritone voice of Cardinal Edward M. Egan, archbishop of New York. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is venturing into...
Pictures from Dedication of the New International HG of SVDP
The French version of famvin features an article complete with pictures of the dedication of the new building which will house the International Headquarters. photosFrom the International site of the SSVDP... Friday February 3, 2005, the National Council of France of...
America Magazine Highlights Vincentian Comments on Immigration
America Magazine: At a Mass concelebrated by eight U.S. cardinals, the head of The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., asked Catholics to welcome illegal immigrants. Christ was not excluding anyone when he said, �I was a stranger and you welcomed...
Old Computers Resurrected
Older computers (Windows 98 vintage, etc.) can be brought back to life using open source (free!) software. Aidan Rooney shows how. Althought not everyone has an inner geek brave enough or smart enough to try his approach it is something that some of your nephews and...
Australian Budget Seen As Pot of Gold For the Rich
CANBERRA - Welfare organisations, the Opposition and the Family First party have criticised the Budget as a pot of gold for the rich that ignores Australians on struggle street. While the Government's latest round of tax cuts have been applauded widely, the lack of...
Artists Put A Face On Poverty
Local art students focused their creative minds on the impoverished to create pieces based on photographs of people eating meals at St. Vincent de Paul Dining Room. The top 20 works in "Windows to the Soul: Putting a Human Face on Poverty in Marin County" will be...
Vinnies sees long-term focus missing from Federal Budget
The St Vincent de Paul Society has cautioned Australians against taking comfort from the short-term gains in last night's Budget, with its spokesperson John Falzon suggesting that the Budget failed to "identify and address the areas of market failure and structural...
