Annual Vincentian Convocation Celebrates Lives and Legacies of Healers
Echoing this year’s Founder’s Week theme, “Be Vincentian: Be a Healer,” St. John’s University’s annual Vincentian Convocation celebrated the healers in our midst, paying special tribute to one in...
Catholic Scholars Begin a New Year of Faith, Service, and Learning
St. John’s University welcomed its new and returning Catholic Scholars to the Queens, NY, campus for their annual opening retreat.
St. Vincent de Paul Society Members Attend National Assembly
Proud and excited to share with other students from across the country how the St. John’s community embodies the University’s Vincentian mission , three St. John’s students who are members of the St...
Art Historian to Discuss Missing Masterpiece Discovery
A random visit to a New Rochelle, NY, church in 2020 led an art historian to an incredible find that will be featured in a presentation at St. John’s University’s Queens , NY, campus on September 29...
St. John’s Helps Inner-City High Schoolers Build Successful College Strategies
More than a dozen high school students from inner-city communities were introduced recently to the mission and student life of St. John’s University through “buildOn at St. John’s!”, an inaugural...
New Executive Vice President for Mission Seeks to Engage, Learn, and Grow
A great many St. John’s University special events begin with an invocation, which is a welcoming prayer—often given by a priest or a religious person—that asks God for a special blessing upon the...
St. John’s Alumnus Ordained as a Vincentian
For a young alumnus of St. John’s University, the 10-year vocation journey of personal discernment, faith, challenging work, and trust in God recently culminated with his profession of sacred vows of...
Criminal Justice Majors Work with Wrongfully Convicted and Recently Freed
Jeffrey Deskovic has made it his life’s mission to overturn the cases of wrongfully convicted individuals and ease their transition to life outside prison, often after decades of incarceration.
Vincentian Chair Lecturer Discusses Hope in the Midst of “Apocalypse”
Third World populations, many of which emit zero carbon, consistently suffer as a result of the harmful effects of climate change resulting from the careless practices of First World nations. That was...
Research Program Supports St. John’s Vincentian Mission
The Collaborative Health Integration Research Program (CHIRP), an interdisciplinary initiative within St. John’s University’s Department of Psychology , uses its research resources to help craft real...