by cduggan@vincentian.org | Apr 14, 2022 | Education/Evangelization, Province News
Fr. Mike Boyle, C.M., was born to Bernard Boyle and Josephine McElhinney in Chicago, IL, on September 24, 1928. He was baptized at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica on Chicago’s west side on October 5, 1928. Fr. Mike was the oldest of four children with one sister and two...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Apr 11, 2022 | Education/Evangelization
We start the week with Palm Sunday and end it with Easter about to burst forth. Christian communities around the world will be concluding Lent and celebrating the Risen Christ. Jews will be celebrating Passover. Ukrainians will be clinging to life, many in a new...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Apr 4, 2022 | Education/Evangelization
I am back in the USA now after two weeks in Paris and London co-leading our Vincentian Values and Leadership course. I always enjoy these days and this year was as good as they get. Today marks the beginning of the third year of these stories—the first coming on April...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Mar 31, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
Serving the poor and homeless has always been important to St. Louisan Jim Kistner. So, when he began a search for a new home parish, one of the churches he visited for Mass was St. Catherine Labouré, a Vincentian-run parish in South St. Louis County. Jim recalls that...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Mar 30, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
The Congregation of the Mission Western Province mourns the loss of Rev. John. T. Richardson, C.M., who passed away on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at the age of 98 after a lengthy illness. Born Dec. 20, 1922, and ordained in August 1949, Fr. Richardson served his long...