by John Freund, CM | Mar 26, 2013 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
The website of the Sisters of Charity Federation posted the following item… The Sisters of Charity Federation was well represented in the 60 Minutes segment that aired on March 17. We caught glimpses of several from the LCWR meeting in St. Louis, but the...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 17, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The “Nuns on the Bus” are hopping off the bus temporarily to jump on the Staten Island Ferry. Sister Simone Campbell and other Sisters plan to tell New York elected officials that we do not want the federal budget balanced on the backs of struggling families....
by John Freund, CM | Sep 2, 2012 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
(The Conference of Major Superiors of Men asked Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, NETWORK’s Executive Director, to reflect on NETWORK’s its 40 year history of advocating for the poor and marginalized . “Network: Faithful to the Gospel – Then and...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 3, 2012 | Vincentian Family
“The Unionists would all go to hell, and the secessionists to heaven.” That was the message Catherine Bockman heard when she attended Mass on May 27, 1862, at St. Vincent’s, near the French market in St. Louis’s Soulard neighborhood. She had come to pray for the...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 10, 2012 | Congregation of the Mission, Vincentian Family
The following interesting questions were posed by a researcher to the Vincentian History Researchers Network Was there any opposition to the founding of the CM? Did Vincent endure any ‘costly grace’ for seeking to found an order to address formation of the...
