Tag: St Vincent de Paul Society

The 2026 Vinnies CEO Sleepout has raised a record $10 million nationally, with more than $2.3 million raised in NSW to support homelessness and housing services.

As Australia marks Refugee Week, Catholic organisations are calling on the federal government to provide permanent solutions for hundreds of refugees who remain on temporary visas after years in offshore detention. Advocates say many have spent more than a decade in uncertainty despite becoming valued members of Australian communities.

St Vincent de Paul’s Vinnies Finds fashion program has celebrated its one-year anniversary in style, hosting a fashion show at a birthday event in their Stanmore warehouse in Sydney’s inner west.

As winter sets in, more Australian households are facing severe financial strain, with many cutting back on essentials just to stay housed. The St Vincent de Paul Society is seeing rising demand firsthand, as families edge closer to crisis and charities struggle to keep up.

It was among the orphans of Lospalos, the street children of Baucau, the welcoming families living on very little that I discovered what Scripture means when it tells us Christ is found in the margins and the periphery.

The centenary of Venerable Matt Talbot’s death was commemorated at the Ozanam Learning Centre in Woolloomooloo on 14 June.

This year, the Vinnies CEO Sleepout will mark its 20th anniversary, bringing together CEOs and senior executives from across Australia for a night outdoors to raise critical funds and awareness for Australia’s homelessness crisis.

Fr Michael Meagher and parishioners at St Brendan’s and St Michael’s in Sydney’s inner west are dreaming big and putting plans in place to support the historic parish as a centre of evangelisation well into the future.

The St Vincent de Paul Society’s NSW CEO says an acute housing crisis and costs of living are forcing record numbers of people to seek help for the first time while the charity itself is under increasing financial pressure.

St Vincent de Paul Society announced the death of its NSW State President Mr Paul Burton after he entered eternal life on 12 May.

A transformative change of heart and mind is a fundamental aspect of the Christian worldview. The acceptance of an invitation towards transformation generated by spiritual reassessment is known as metanoia.

Teresa Trujillo is about as materially poor but spiritually rich as you can get. Lucky to weigh 50 kilograms and crippled by polio, the 61-year-old lives in crisis accommodation in a rough slice of upmarket inner-city Sydney.