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‘Thriftmas’ is Here: Giving with Purpose this Holiday Season 1280 853 SVDP USA
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‘Thriftmas’ is Here: Giving with Purpose this Holiday Season

By Chad Caliguiri, Deputy Director, SVdP Des Moines Holiday shopping is evolving – and secondhand gifts are taking center stage. According to new consumer research, more than 8 in 10 Americans plan to purchase at least one secondhand gift this holiday season, with many allocating up to half of their gift budget to thrifted or…

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12-11-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders 1200 1200 SVDP USA
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12-11-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

O Holy Night… For me it is so special to be with family at Midnight Mass to start the Christmas Season.  It is so wonderful singing and hearing the entire congregation singing, “O Holy Night.” As Vincentians, this great Christmas song touches all our hearts.  It puts into words the special time when the Word…

John Berry
12-4-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders 1200 1200 SVDP USA
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12-4-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

The Wish We Live: Personal Relationships in the Heart of Service When I moved to Georgia almost 34 years ago, it didn’t take me long to become a country music fan. Seems unlikely for a hardcore rock and roller who grew up on the beach. But it happened (let me clarify that I do not…

Bringing the Vincentian Voice to PRSA: Paula Gwynn Grant Speaks at Annual Conference 2560 1920 SVDP USA
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Bringing the Vincentian Voice to PRSA: Paula Gwynn Grant Speaks at Annual Conference

Last month, our Senior National Director of Marketing and Communications Paula Gwynn Grant participated in an interfaith communications workshop session at the annual Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) conference held at the historic Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.  The hotel is known for hosting major events like the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner…

11-26-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders 1200 1200 SVDP USA
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11-26-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

Should We Think of the Society as an Apostolate or a Ministry? In Catholic Church circles, there has been a debate over the last 20 years about what to call church groups – “ministries” or “apostolates.”  “Ministry” seems to be the favorite as it’s easy to say, but in recent years there has been more…

SVdP Joins Catholic Mobilizing Network in Jubilee to Alabama 2560 1440 SVDP USA
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SVdP Joins Catholic Mobilizing Network in Jubilee to Alabama

By Ingrid Delgado, National Director of Public Policy and Advocacy 2025 is a Jubilee Year which Pope Francis designated as a time to rededicate ourselves as “Pilgrims of Hope.” Honoring this Biblical Jubilee tradition of reconciliation and pilgrimage, earlier this month, I was blessed to join the Catholic Mobilizing Network in a Jubilee Experience to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama…

John Berry
11-20-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders 1200 1200 SVDP USA
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11-20-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

OUR INCREDIBLE JOURNEY – AND IT IS FAR FROM OVER! November 20 is a special date for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA. This date marks the anniversary of an event that changed the face of charity in the United States. A date that we celebrate with gratitude this year as we commemorate…

A Bipartisan Moral Failure: How Both Parties Weaponized the Defenseless 1080 1350 SVDP USA
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A Bipartisan Moral Failure: How Both Parties Weaponized the Defenseless

This week, millions of mothers are wondering how to feed their children. Government doors are closed, but hunger will not wait. Allowing the innocent and vulnerable, children, families, people with disabilities, and the poor, to become casualties of an ideological political struggle is an egregious moral failure. The present government shutdown in the United States…

Statement from John Berry, National President of SVdP USA, on the Federal Government Shutdown 1080 1350 SVDP USA
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Statement from John Berry, National President of SVdP USA, on the Federal Government Shutdown

The government shutdown is increasingly devastating with every passing day, leaving most federal workers without pay and causing uncertainty and delays in federal programs that serve the poor.  Our most economically vulnerable brothers and sisters should not be forced to go without basic needs as a result of a partisan impasse, and it is time…

Statement from SVdP USA on Pope Leo XIV’s Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi Te 1080 1350 SVDP USA
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Statement from SVdP USA on Pope Leo XIV’s Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi Te

The first Apostolic Exhortation from Pope Leo XIV entitled Dilexi Te (“I Have Loved You”) is greeted with the utmost joy and appreciation by our 81,000 members of The Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA (SVdPUSA). The vision outlined by the Holy Father to serve the poor with love and compassion is not only the call of the Gospel, it…

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Q&A with Ingrid Delgado, SVdP National Director of Public Policy and Advocacy 450 450 SVDP USA
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Q&A with Ingrid Delgado, SVdP National Director of Public Policy and Advocacy

When Ingrid Delgado talks about her journey into advocacy, she often returns to the stories she grew up hearing around her family’s dinner table. Her parents, immigrants from Cuba, refused to denounce their Catholic faith, even when it meant her father became a political prisoner and her mother was barred from pursuing the studies she…

Vincentians at the St. Vincent de Paul Chapel in Paris, France
September is a Month of Vincentian Celebration and Veneration 1024 768 SVDP USA
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September is a Month of Vincentian Celebration and Veneration

September is a Month of Vincentian Celebration and Veneration By Tim Williams, Senior Director of Formation & Leadership Development A feast is a celebration, and September marks two great celebrations for Vincentians – the Feast of St Vincent de Paul on September 27, and the Feast of Blessed Frédéric Ozanam which occurred on September 9.…

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