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Find Your Inner St. Vincent!
The theme for the parish’s Feast of St. Vincent celebration this year is “Find Your Inner St. Vincent!” This slightly hippy-dippy theme statement might seem simplistic, even flighty, at first glance. That is until you ask yourself what “finding your more…
God Is Living in Our Cities
Photo credit: Flickr/Let Ideas Compete The Pope said so. The quote is hanging on our wall. God is living in our cities. Really? Don’t the theologians say that God is everywhere? And if we were looking for someplace in particular more…
Breaking Bread With the Hungry
Every Friday for almost 20 years St. Vincent’s parish, in partnership with devoted volunteers and donors from Our Lady of the Fields parish in Millersville, has hosted a hot dinner for anyone in need in our church undercroft. Some years more…
Amoris Laetitia: The Joy of Love
This week Pope Francis released his apostolic exhortation, which draws on the Synod of the Family in 2015. The document is intended as “an aid to reflection, dialogue and pastoral practice, and as a help and encouragement to families in more…
“The Dung of the Devil”
Does that sound like something you once got punished for calling your little brother? Properly raised grown-ups refrain from even thinking language like that, much less using it. Unless you happen to be Pope. In the most important speech (the more…
Pope Francis Takes On Climate Change (and a Lot More) In Latest Encyclical
Laudato Si is mediaeval Italian for “Praised be You.” It is also the title of the Hymn of Creation of St. Francis of Assisi. And it is now also the title of Pope Francis’ Encyclical on the Environment. The Pope more…