Letters of Frédéric Ozanam. Chapter 05

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Author: Frédéric Ozanam · Translator: Ainslie Coates. · Year of first publication: 1886.

English translation of Volume X of Frédéric Ozanam's Œuvres complètes, edited by Jean-Jacques Ampère (París 1862, 11 vol.)


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Christian activity — Practical work — Inward questionings. IT is time now to introduce the notice of one of the two special works which Frederic Ozanam had great share, at least, in initiating. The first … Read More

Ozanam: Pioneer in Social Justice

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Author: Bruce Duncan CSsR · Year of first publication: 2008 · Source: St Vincent de Paul Record, (Autumn 2008), 15-16..

Bruce Duncan is a Redemptorist priest who co-ordinates the program in social justice studies at Yarra Theological Union in Melbourne.


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Frederick Ozanam was an outstanding pioneer in the renewed stress on social justice in the Church. Many church statements today reflect his views insisting that work for social justice is an essential aspect of evangelisation. … Read More

Vatican II timeline

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Author: Unknown · Year of first publication: 2010 · Source: Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour website, Singapore.
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This brief timeline describes the proceedings leading up to and through the four working sessions of the Council. 1959 25 Jan: Papal allocution by Pope John XXIII announcing his intention to conduct an Ecumenical Council. … Read More

The Life of Vincent de Paul (Abelly): Book I, Chapter XIV

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Author: Louis Abelly · Translator: William Quinn. · Year of first publication: 1664.
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After Appointment as Royal Chaplain of the Galleys, Monsieur Vincent Visits Provence and Guienne to Provide Physical and Spiritual Help to the Convicts When the general of the galleys had seen the blessings brought about … Read More

Responding Together to the Cry of the Poor

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Author: Jaime Corera, C.M. · Translator: John Carney, C.M.. · Year of first publication: 1999 · Source: Vincentiana.
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“The history of all societies which have existed until today is a history of class struggle” stated the Communist Manifesto in 1848. In a note to the English edition of the Manifesto in 1888, Engels … Read More

Letters of Frédéric Ozanam. Chapter 04

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Author: Frédéric Ozanam · Translator: Ainslie Coates. · Year of first publication: 1886.

English translation of Volume X of Frédéric Ozanam's Œuvres complètes, edited by Jean-Jacques Ampère (París 1862, 11 vol.)


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Cholera-social presentiments-varied occupa­tions and acquaintances. Ii was in this year the cholera appeared in Paris. Frederic’s father sent to recall him, but he remonstrated, not wishing to interrupt his studies. He suffered nothing himself, and … Read More

Early Days of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Difficult Decisions

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Author: Claire Sweeney DC · Year of first publication: 2012 · Source: Justice Matters Ireland.
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The Society started by Ozanam and his friends on 23 April 1833 in the offices of La Tribune Catholique was set to grow and develop very quickly. Ozanam had a vision of expansion, but four … Read More

The Contribution of Frederick Ozanam and Sylvain Bailly to the Charity Organization Movement in USA

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Author: Frank Dekker Watson · Year of first publication: 1922 · Source: The Charity Organization Movement in the United States (Chapter II).

A Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Gradutate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy


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In 1833 a young and zealous Catholic student of law at the Sorbonne in Paris, in order to meet the criticisms of the followers of the French reformer, St. Simon, that the Catholic Church really … Read More

The Poor Country People of Seventeenth Century France

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Author: Brian M. Nolan · Year of first publication: 1982 · Source: Colloque, Journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission, no. 5.
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During the past forty years French historians have shifted their attention from the great personages and political movements of their country’s past to the ordinary people among their ancestors. Their key interests include diet, health, … Read More