The FAMVIN Digital Network
The Vincentian Family is a movement made up of more than 160 institutions and some 4,000,000 people who follow Jesus Christ, serving the poor, as did St. Vincent de Paul, St. Louise de Marillac and many other believers who, over the last four centuries, have enriched the Vincentian charism.
The FAMVIN Digital Network serves the Vincentian Family with news, media, formation resources and more. Learn more about who we are and what we offer.
Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Resources for Feast of Bl. Frederic Ozanam, 9 September
New resources in honor of Bl. Frederic’s Feast Day on September 9.
SVDP – Tricycling out of poverty!
Fifteen tricycles make it possible for 15 support their families by delivering produce in the Dominican Republic. Obviously these are not the tricycles many of us used as children. Edmund Keane shares this message from Mónica Alcántara de Martínez of the Dominican...
Choosing Seminary over NFL career
>Why would a promising All-American turn from options in the NFL toward theological education and the pastoral ministry? I invite you to watch this moving 11-minute story of Michigan State linebacker Chris Norman. http://vimeo.com/73414547 Desiring God commissioned...
Drafted – NFL or God?
Com∙pas∙sion < Latin ‘com’-, together + ‘pati’, to suffer
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), September 8, 2013 – Wis 9, 13-18b; Philm 9-10. 12-17; Lk 14, 25-33 Bear one another’s burdens (Gal 6, 2) Jesus demands very much. He is, however, not one of those who are very demanding when dealing with the little and poor...
Pope – Day of prayer/fasting for peace
Pope Francis has called for a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, in the entire Mideast region, and throughout the whole world to be held this coming Saturday, September 7th, 2013. Speaking ahead of the traditional Angelus prayer with pilgrims gathered in St...
What Poverty and Insomnia have in common
Which comes first? The chicken or the egg? Some research about an analogous question Does low intelligence cause poverty or does poverty cause low intelligence move in the the direction of the latter. Another article puts it this way... "What do Poverty and Insomnia...
Labor issues in science fiction
Wired magazine has an interesting post about class and labor issues in science fiction. Most sci-fi -- at least most good sci-fi -- is a metaphor for something that's happening, or has happened, in the real world: war, inequality, fear of the "other." And yes, every...
The Rich See a Different Internet Than the Poor
An article in Scientific American points out that the Internet shows us “what it thinks we want to see” by serving up content that matches the hidden profiles created about us based on our daily online interactions. For many that is a help. Others see it as...
Sisters house motorcycle gang
Sisters, motorcycle gang form unlikely bond in Milwaukee Amy Guckeen of Catholic News Service writes "Don't let their veils and name -- Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida -- deceive you. Members of the Milwaukee order aren't just brides of Christ. They're biker...
