by John Freund, CM | Mar 28, 2012 | Church
Reuters reports that “Fidel Castro, the president’s older brother, visited Benedict at the Vatican embassy where the two octogenarian world leaders with widely divergent political views chatted for 30 minutes in what a Vatican spokesman called a...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 13, 2012 | Church
(Romereports.com) The Pope’s visit to Cuba is making history even before it starts. Cuba’s government has posted an official website on Benedict XVI’s trip. It includes all type of information on his three day visit, including all the prep work in...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 7, 2009 | Congregation of the Mission, Daughters of Charity, Missions inter gentes, Vincentian Family
How would you like to work on a tropical island? You’re picturing gentle breezes, swaying palm trees, pristine beaches…paradise, right? Father Gilbert Walker, CM, laughs heartily at the image. Since 2003 he is one of a very long line of Vincentians to serve in...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 17, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
“The persons hospitalized today in El Rincon Sanatorium and marvelously cared for by the Daughters of Charity, who are very dedicated nuns, are no longer lepers, they have been cured; the problem is that they have lesions and are handicapped and they have been...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 26, 2008 | Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family
A team of criminal justice students in south Florida describe their “service learning” project with the Duaghters of Charity. See related feature in the Miami Herald.
