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Nazareth SC’s Given Environmental Honor
NAZARETH - Led by their commitment to preserve God's creation, a group of nuns based near Bardstown has become the state's second-largest purchaser of an alternative form of energy generated from methane gas in landfills. Nuns given environmental honor GROUP LARGE...
A Chance to Make your Hunger Dollars Count Double
You have an opportunity in the next 9 days to have your donation to Food First matched by Alan Shawn Feinstein, who is giving $1 million to fight hunger in the U.S. http://thedatabank.com/hfriend.asp?aacwc=374419911756891063137095 Join the Feinstein Hunger Challenge!...
JMV International Assembly 2005
This letter from the Preparatory Commission of the 2 nd Misevi International Assembly also wants to be a reason for hope. The 2 nd Misevi International Assembly will be held at the Berceau (France) from December 26 to 30, 2005 , with the theme : Open your eyes to the...
One Ton of Food a Day – SVDP
Nearly a ton of food is distributed daily, five days a week, from the Williamson Street address, the busiest food pantry in Dane County, Wisconsin St. Vincent's runs five thrift stores and transitional housing, in addition to the services provided now on Williamson...
White Smoke, Ringing Bells and the Vincentian Family
Rolando Delagoza writes from Rome....Believe it or not but hundreds of Vincentian Family members (Daughters of Charity, Vincentians, AIC, SSVP, Marian Youth, etc.) joined the hundreds of thousands of people at the Piazza San Pietro to witness the “Habemus Papam” (We...
DC’s and Vincentian Millenium Partnership Speak Out On Rights of Immigrants
The speakers at the conference will include the South African ambassador to Ireland, Melanie Verwoerd, and Sister Bernadette McMahon and Sister Margo Delaney of the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice. Human dignity must be at the heart of the state’s treatment...
Asia-Pacific CM Provincials Meet with Superior General
NORTH SYDNEY, April 19, 2005: The annual Asia-Pacific Visitors’ Conference (APVC) Meeting of the Congregation of the Mission is being held at MacKillop Centre, North Sydney this week, commencing on the evening of April 18, 2005 and concluding on the morning of April...
Benedict’s First Full Length Message
Here is a translation of Pope Benedict XVI's first full-length message. Venerable Brother Cardinals, Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Men and Women of Good Will! 1. May grace and peace be multiplied to all of you (cf. 1 Peter 1:2)! In these hours, two contrasting...
What’s In a Name?
The name he took Benedict draws a connection to Benedict XV, the Italian pontiff from 1914 to 1922 who had the difficult task of providing leadership for Catholic countries on opposite sides of World War I. His declared neutrality, and his repeated protests against...
Pope Bendict XVI – Issues and Background
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