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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Use of Media in Evangelization Is Not an Option
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Using the media to spread the Gospel message isn't an option for believers, a missionary told a Vatican-organized symposium. "To evangelize through the media is not something merely optional but an imperative," said Father...
Young Vinnies:Kid-driven cause for Lent benefits the Needy.
February 26, 2005 Young 'Vinnies' rally to continue tradition of Eric's Promise By JOSEPH DITS (South Bent) Tribune Staff Writer Some of the third-graders at St. Pius X Church would like peanut butter and jelly, please. Not on a sandwich, not on a cracker. They'll...
John Allen’s Impressions of Dynamism of Youth at Rel Ed Congress
This week's column by John Allen of the NCR has a very encouraging presentation of his experience of the dynamism of youth at the recently concluding Relgious Education Conference which was attended 12,000 youth and 20,000 catechists.Among the things one is impressed...
Former Vincentian – Poet-priest of the Confederacy
A southern sympathizer, he left his duties at the seminary and became a well-known chaplain in the Confederate army. A statue in Mobile, Alabama commemorates him as the "poet-priest of the Confederacy."From the author, David O'Connell Georgia State University......
Famvin Collaborator Publishes Significant Book
Mary Margaret Keaton, a collaborator on famvin and Vincentian Center for Church and Society projects as well as a product of Daughters of Charity education in Lynchburg,Virginia, has published what promises to be a very influential and successful book: IMAGINING FAITH...
Sr. of Charity (Leavenworth) To Receive Lifetime Service Award
Sister Ann Marita Loosen, SCL, former president/CEO of three Kansas hospitals of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System, will receive a Lifetime Service Award from Ingram's magazine, a business publication. Sister Ann Marita Loosen, SCL, a Providence...
DC WIns Jefferson Award for Public Service
Jefferson Award winner: Sister Trinitas Hernandez DC, founder of the Rosalie Rendu Center in East Palo Alto.How she started: When Hernandez returned to the Bay Area in 1996 after working with delinquent youth and orphans in Colorado and the San Joaquin Valley, she...
Giuseppina Nicoli, DC – ‘Servant of God’
God�s servant, Giuseppina Nicoli, a Daughter of Charity, was born in Casatisma (Pavia) Italy on November 18, 1863, the fifth of 10 children. (Thanks to Josie Cabiglio of the SVDP for this quick translation from the Itatian original.)Her family always lived in unity...
Vatican Resources on Lent
The Vatican site a rich section of reources for Lent 2005The site has links to words of the Holy Father, Lenten Stations, Lenten Music, Calendar of Celebration and Vatican live TV.Vatican Resources for Lent
Vincentians Who Paid With Their Lives During the French Revolution
March 3 -Blessed Rene Rogue, one of three Vincentian pirests martyed in 1796Fr. Louis Joseph François, Fr. John Henri Gruyer, and Fr. René Rogue, three Vincentian priest faced a choice. They could take the oath and cave to public pressure or choose to stand for their...
