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Changing Times for DC’s In Manila
MANILA, June 29, 2004 (asianews.it): AsiaNews reports on changing times for the Daughters of Charity in the Philippines - For the past 68 years, the sisters of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul have been running the private-owned White Cross Orphanage...
CM ”Catholic Home Study Course – Evangelization for Today”
Since Catholic Home Study Service moved to Perryville, Missouri in 1991, 115,000 courses have been sent to students throughout the United States, and another 5,000 courses to students in over 100 foreign countries. In the past year, the Service sent out 13,470...
St. Vincent School of Theology (Philippines) Now Online
St. Vincent School of Theology (SVST) is an institute for the theological, pastoral and missiological formation of persons for effective service to the Church and society. It fosters a way of doing theology that builds on the religious experience and praxis of the...
Acculturation Seminar at SJU Continues Vincent’s Work with Clergy
"From Columbia and Atlanta, from Kenya and Kentucky, from Sri Lanka and Centerport, from Haiti and Brooklyn, the global Church gathered from eight countries and five dioceses at St. John’s University for the Fourth Annual Acculturation Seminar for International...
Gen. Eisenhower on the Cost of War (1953) – Implications for the Poor
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."His son John Eisenhower writes, "The most fundamental conviction that the period...
In the Footsteps of Vincent de Paul
PARIS, June 24, 2004 (famvin.org/fr): In the Footsteps of Vincent de Paul - Vincentian Guide to France by Fr John Rybolt CM has been published in Spanish. Tras las huellas de Vicente de Paúl.- Guía vicenciana de Francia (In the Footsteps of Vincent de Paul -...
VIncentian Leadership Project at de Paul University
The project seeks to rediscover St. Vincent de Paul as a contemporary example of servant leadership, effective management and committed leader for social change.Other objectives of the Project: Assess contemporary value-based leadership practices of people at...
Rising Levels of Poverty in the United States
June 20, 2004 - The poverty rate in the United States has risen over the past two years. Over 34.6 million people in the United States--one out of every eight Americans--are poor according to the official government definition. This is 12.1% of our population. Each...
Setonian Heritage of Seton Hall University
The Provost's page on the Seton Hall University has some fine material relating to its Setonian Heritage.Elizabeth Seton Biography http://provost.shu.edu/charterday/seton.htm Elizabeth Seton Timeline http://provost.shu.edu/charterday/seton-timeline.htm Elizabeth Seton...
US BIshop’s Call for ‘A New Kind of Politiics’
June 18, 2004 - U.S. Bishops' Panel Calls for Focus on the Common Good In U.S. Elections In testimony submitted to the Democratic and Republican Party platform committees, U.S. bishops have called for "a new kind of politics—focused on moral principles not on the...
