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Vatican – ''Inspections … Still Remains an Effective Path''
by Beth | Feb 20, 2003 | Justice and Peace
NEW YORK, FEB. 20, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Here is the address delivered Wednesday by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's permanent observer at the United Nations, during the meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the Iraq situation.Vatican Addresses U.N....
Source of computers for Non-profits
by Beth | Feb 20, 2003 | Social
A lead on low cost computers published on the website of PNN, a website dedicated to nonprofit news and information. (well worth a visit for other fund raising information)Although this is an advertisement it may be of special use for famvin people....
CM Culture and Charism Workshop
by Beth | Feb 20, 2003 | Formation
TAIPEI, February 20, 2003 (Provincial News 1/03): Fr Maurice Sullivan CM and Fr Laurie McNamara CM (both of the Australian Province) recently attended a Formators' Workshop on Culture and Charism in Taipei (Taiwan) from 9-19 February. The workshop was an initiative...
Midwestern CM's Letter to President Bush
by Beth | Feb 19, 2003 | Justice and Peace
"As men committed to the service of God's children, we judge ourselves to be obliged to inform you of our grave moral reservations about the pre-emptive war that is being proposed against the nation of Iraq."January 30, 2003 President George W. Bush President of the...
IX Meeting of Leaders of Various Branches of Vincentian Family
by Beth | Feb 19, 2003 | Vincentian Family
Minutes of the meeting of the meeting held in Rome Feb ruary 7-9, 2003MINUTES We began our meeting with a moment of prayer. Together we asked the Father for the gift of unity in the love of Jesus Christ. Afterwards, Fr. Maloney, Superior General, welcomed the...
Australian Vinnies Concerned for Mentally Ill
by Beth | Feb 19, 2003 | Justice and Peace
SYDNEY, February 19, 2003 (cathnews.com): Sr Myree Harris, president of the NSW St Vincent de Paul advisory committee for the care of people with mental illness, told a Sate Government inquiry that "experts from all government departments and from non-government...
Report from SIEV meeting
by Beth | Feb 17, 2003 | Vincentian Family
Report from the 2002 annual meeting of SIEV (International Secretariat for Vincentian Studies) held in Kraków. http://www.famvin.net/cm/institutes/SIEV/meeting9-2002.html
Prayers for Peace
by Beth | Feb 17, 2003 | Justice and Peace
Prayer for peace from the Community of St. Egidio in Rome - a community very close to the Vincentian Family.The site further specifies all the countries affected by wars today and lends urgency to the prayer http://www.santegidio.org/en/preghiera/index.htm This...
NUNTIA of the CM – January Issue Online
by Beth | Feb 17, 2003 | Vincentian Family
ROME, January 2003 (nuntia.cs.depaul.edu): The January Issue of Nuntia, the International News Bulletin of the Congregation of the Mission, is now available in English at: <a href=http://nuntia.cs.depaul.edu/cm/2301english.htm
Communications Campaign nets 95 new members of SSVDP
by Beth | Feb 16, 2003 | Vincentian Family
In order to make the Society of St. Vincent de Paul better known in Spain, the Society began a new Communication Campaign. The campaign was initiated to coincide with the 153rd Anniversary of the Society in Spain. There are large posters with facts and figures and...