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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Cardinals and Technology
The BBC has a story reporting on how the Cardinals are using cyberspace and the internet to share their experiences in Rome. Just weeks before his death, Pope John Paul II issued a letter urging priests and Church officials to explore the internet's potential for...
Photo Gallery – DC’s with Superior General in Paris
Thanks to Sr. Jean Rhodes, DC we have a small photo gallery of the recent meeting of the English-speaking leadership of the Daughters of Charity.The meeting was held in Paris 3/1-3/11. Photo Gallery
Report – Vincentian Family International Campaign Against Hunger
There were some 160 projects generated by the Vincentian Family Campaign Against Hunger. These projects gbenerated the following funds * Africa: 494,280 $USA * America: 993,800 $USA * Asia: 32,500 $USA * Europe: 1,245,000 $USA The report provides more in depth...
JMV – With a Lay Spirituality, We Share the Mission: Challenges
As young Christians, catechists, animators and leaders of the Association, we are called to be "doors," to be instruments of light in the world so that others can move out of darkness, fears and worries and see the Risen Lord who walks together with us, taking our...
”I too, was young…”
I, too, was 20, like you. I enjoyed sports, skiing, acting. I studied and I worked. I had desires and worries. In those years, now so long ago, when my native Land was wounded by war and then by the totalitarian regime, I sought the meaning to give to my life. I found...
SSVDP USA Press Release – Upcoming National Meeting
Fr. Ron Ramson, CM has forward the following press release with deatils of the meeting beginning April 12.THE SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES’ NATIONAL MID-YEAR MEETING WILL BE HELD IN ST. LOUIS, MO FROM TUESDAY, APRIL 12TH THROUGH SATURDAY...
Summary of Pope’s Social Justice Legacy
The Education for Justice website has provided a 2 page pdf document suitable use as a bulletin insert.To down load the document visit Major themes
Last Wishes of DC Turning Over a Home for Developmentally Disabled.
The parting wish and appeal of the last Sister of Charity to manage Waterford city’s Sacred Heart Centre for children with learning disabilities is that a new larger premises be provided for its students and staff. The Sisters of Charity will officially transfer...
Ladies of Charity Offer Tours of Churches to Raise Money for Homless
The Ladies of Charity are offering a tour of some of St. Louis’ most beautiful Catholic churches — and they’re doing it for a good cause. The group of lay women volunteers, based out of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in the Soulard neighborhood, will lead a tour of...
Updates from the Daughters of Charity in Britain
The website of the Daughters of Charity in Britain has been updated toreflect recent happneing.Among the reports are an iupdate of the meeting of the English-speaking Councils in Paris and a few golden jubilarians. Full story
