by John Freund, CM | Apr 29, 2014 | Pope, Vincentian Family
The Surprising Humor of St. John XXIII –Â Â Father James Martin. SJ writes on the US Bishops blog… One night, in the late 1980s, during a retreat as a first-year Jesuit novice, I was poking around the retreat house library when I should have been praying. By...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2014 | Pope
In his homily during the canonization Pope Francis highlighted things he learned from the two saints according to RomeReports POPE FRANCISÂ “These were two men of courage, filled with the parrhesia of the Holy Spirit, and they bore witness before the Church and...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2014 | Daughters of Charity, Pope
Some Vincentian Trivia on St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII (courtesy of Karl Michael Hila, SVDP International Youth Representative) On St. John Paul II – He was a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and he was also the one who beatified Bl. Frederic...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 19, 2013 | Pope
So many words! So much spin! All set in motion by a 10,000 word interview with Pope Francis. No doubt the torrent will pick up pace. In places the interview seems to echo the words of another Pope some 50 years ago. “Scrape the barnacles of history off the bottom of...
