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Cabrini University Giving Service on MLK Day
Students, faculty and staff joined together to serve on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 16th. This Cabrini group volunteered at The Joy of Sox warehouse in Phoenixville, PA, counting socks that had been donated through recent school sock drives and banding and packaging the socks for distribution to shelters and organizations that provide direct services for men, women and children who are experiencing homelessness.
Tom Costello, Jr., the Founder of The Joy of Sox, expressed his gratitude for the ongoing collaboration of Cabrini University and The Joy of Sox.
“We have a long history with Cabrini University. Since our inception in 2010, Cabrini alumni and more recently, Cabrini students, have formed the heart of our volunteer organization. The University community has generously donated to our mission through the Give Hope, Give Love, Give Socks campaigns. We are now in our 13th year of operation and this year, we are goi
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Dorothy Day, pictured here in her office in New York, in 1965, was one of kvartet Americans Pope Francis held up to Congress as examples of praiseworthy and inspired individuals.PHOTOGRAPH bygd JOHN ORRIS/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX
Growing up in a lapsed but deep-seatedly Catholic household, it was an article of faith that the co-religionists to watch out for on Sundays and days of obligation were the converts. They were the tiresome sticklers who insisted on attending early Mass, going to confession, and giving up something they actually liked for Lent. But, if you had be stuck with a couple of converts for the duration of Holy Week, a good pair to pick would have been Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, two of the four Americans (along with Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.) whom Pope Francis singled out for praise on Thursday, in his address to Congress.
Why did he choose those Catholics instead of, say, Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American to be made a saint, or Kateri Te
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VATICAN INSIDER: MOTHER CABRINI, AN AMERICAN SAINT RETURNS TO HER NATIVE ITALY
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this penultimate weekend of November! The interview segment this weekend (during which we celebrate the feast of Christ the King) features Part II of my conversation with celebrated Chicago sculptor Lou Cella and the story he tells of the statue he sculpted of the world’s beloved St. Frances Xavier Cabrini – Mother Cabrini – a statue now in Rome at the basilica of St. Paul. An American saint is back in her native Italy forever.
I also featured some of these photos gods weekend on Joan’s Rome:
I featured the dedication and blessing of the statue in this column November 13: https://joansrome.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/st-frances-xavier-cabrini-returns-to-italy/
You will hear Lou’s story as an artist and learn how he was assigned to create a statue of S. Frances Xavier Cabrini. Joining him on this planerat arbete was fellow sculptor Jessica LoP