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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Update to Stories About Katrina and the Vincentian Family
There have been some additions to the Hurricane Katrina page of the Vincentian "wiki" or Encyclopedia. For the time being this will be the main source of information regarding Katrina and the Vincentian family.A reminder... anyone who has registered at famvin.org.wiki...
Vincentian Priest Prepares Homily Notes for California Proposition 73
California Catholic Bishops have come out in support of Proposition 73: Parental Notification Prior to Termination of Minor's Pregnancy....Vincentian Father Richard Benson, academic dean and moral theology chair of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo prepared homily...
VIncentian Priest Supervises Seminary Program – 30,000 Volunteer Hours
Seminarians donate 30,000 annual volunteer hours. - Sister Robbins and Vincentian Father Miles Heinen, associate director, oversee the program. St. John's Seminary students soon will be fanning out over Ventura, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties to contribute...
Separate Site For News of the Vincentian Family After Katrina
FAMVIN.ORG has placed a link on the main page of the new Vincentian Encylopedia which will collate Vincentian Family news related to Hurricane Katrina.Currently information is being gathered under the following headings... 1 REPORTS FROM THE VINCENTIAN FAMILY... 2...
Ladies of Charity Report from Mary Beth O’Brien (President LCUSA)
Mary Beth O'Brien writes...I have tried to reach the New Orleans President, Andrina Kappesser and cannot get through. Father Harold Dicharry, CM and Sr. Marion Brett, DC work with the New Orleans Ladies and I have not been able to reach them either. It must be...
SJU Offering Free Enrollment to Students Affected by Katrina
Extending its prayers to all residents of states devastated by Hurricane Katrina, St. John’s University has launched an effort to assist those students the Hurricane has displaced from Gulf Coast colleges and universities. The University invites New York students who...
Ladies of Charity Report
This just in from Nicky Mercado reporting to the Ladies of Charity in Austin Texas Dear Ladies of Charity of Austin, Just to give you the good news. I have been trying to get information about our beloved Sister Blanche McDonell, also about the LOC-Mobile, Alabama,...
AIC Leadership Message to Ladies of Charity and Victims of Katrina
Regarding the powerful hurricane Katrina that caused extensive and severe damage over Southeastern USA. Marina Costa, AIC Executive Board members and AIC volunteers wish to express their thoughts of compassion and solidarity to the families, friends and relatives of...
Hurricane Katrina and U.S. Citizens in Poverty
Two-page Fact sheet/bulletin on Impact of Hurricane Katrina on People in Poverty. When we see many of the faces of the people stranded in New Orleans, we are seeing the faces of poverty in the richest country in the world. The latest U.S. Census Report indicates that...
September 9 – Frederic Ozanam Feast Day Resources
Frederick Ozanam was born in 1813 and grew up in Lyon, France. While still very young he went to study law at the University of Paris. He found that some of his professors were hostile to Catholic teaching and Frederick took them on defending the Church at every...
