by John Freund, CM | May 31, 2014 | Vincentian Family
Frederic Ozanam Stories collected by Sr. Claire Sweeney D.C. found on the website of the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice. Monthly installments of his story in preparation for the celebration of the 200th. Frederic Ozanam Early Childhood A New Boy at the...
by John Freund, CM | May 23, 2014 | Formation
“The great tragedy of the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor.” — Shane Claiborne Paraphrasing Roman 10:14 How can we encounter Christ in the poor if we do not know them? Vincent...
by John Freund, CM | May 5, 2014 | Pope
Is Pope Francis a Vincentian? Not explicitly, perhaps. But in his call for a Church “that is poor, and is for the poor” – that is, for a Church that identifies closely with the poor – and in his insistence that this entails personal, loving service to our brothers 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 | Apr 26, 2014 | Systemic change, Vincentian Family
The National Office of the SVDP draws attention to an excerpt of National Board of Director’s Stategic Goal Leader 4, Ray Sickinger’s contribution to the publication Vincentian Heritage: FREDERIC OZANAM: SYSTEMIC THINKING AND SYSTEMIC CHANGE A number of...