by Communication Cont | Oct 21, 2020 | News, Spirituality
The semesters that I teach Catholic social teaching, my students can be challenged not only by memorizing the Latin titles of papal encyclicals, but also the dates of them as well as the issues addressed in each. I encourage them to approach these richly inspirational...
by CM Communications | Oct 20, 2020 | News, Vincentian Saints
San Fele (PZ), 9 October 2020. Justin De Jacobis is remembered, in the small Lucanian town where he came into the world 220 years ago, as a “man of dialogue and weaver of fraternity.” The initiative intended to inaugurate the missionary month of October in Basilicata,...
by Communication Cont | Oct 19, 2020 | News, Vincentian Family
Monday, August 24th DePaul Center and A New Way of Life will open ‘Villa La Tournelle’, a safe house for formerly incarcerated women returning to society. The ‘villa’ is the ‘former convent’ located on the campus of DePaul Evangelization Center in Montebello. With...
by CM Communications | Oct 18, 2020 | News, Vincentian Missions
Here am I, send me (Is 6:8) Dear Brothers and Sisters, I wish to express my gratitude to God for the commitment with which the Church throughout the world carried out the Extraordinary Missionary Month last October. I am convinced that it stimulated missionary...
by CM Communications | Oct 17, 2020 | International Missions, News, Vincentian Missions
Papua New Guinea in the Eyes of the Beholder Welcome to the island in the Pacific, the land of black people but not of African descent, and the land of the unexpected! It has a population of around eight million with more than eight hundred languages spoken, of which...
by CM Communications | Oct 16, 2020 | International Missions, News, Vincentian Missions
Rome, 18 October 2020 Mission Sunday My dear confreres, May the grace and peace of Jesus be always with us! In the Mission Appeal Letters of the past two years, I invited all the confreres around the world to get involved in the initiative: “To send 1% of the members...