by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 7, 2010 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Lay Missionaries
As part of their assembly doings, the official representatives to the Third Assembly have elected a new coordinating council. The new officers are Maria Rosa Mormesso de Castro, Presidenta (Brasil), Claudia Patricia Lugo Moreno (Colombia), MarÃa Jesús Cuena (España),...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 6, 2010 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Lay Missionaries
The Third General Assembly of los Misioneros Seglares Vicencianos (Vincentian Lay Missionaries) has begun in Bogotá, Colombia. Opening with a Eucharistic celebration which included a procession of flags from the countries represented, the Missionaries were joined by...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 5, 2010 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
NEW YORK (CNS) — St. Vincent’s Hospital, the last surviving Catholic general hospital in New York is enmeshed in a struggle to keep its doors open and fulfill its mandate to serve the sick poor. Sister Jane Iannucelli, a Sister of Charity who is vice...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 19, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, Evangelization, Featured, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Scott Fina offers a contrasting view to David Brooks recent New York Times editorial about the role of poverty in Haiti’s suffering from its earthquake, recently circulated over FamVin. Below he writes “My point? Haiti (like Katrina) is indeed much more a story...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 9, 2010 | Featured, Formation, Vincentian Family
The latest addition to VinFormation celebrates the many women who walk in this tradition. See other recent additions.