Thierry de Roucy

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Rev. Thierry de Roucy (born 1957, near Compiègne, France) is the Founder and Chairman of Heart's Home, a Catholic Movement which promotes a "Culture of Compassion".^[1]
In 2013, he was appointed as an Officer of the French order of the Légion d'Honneur.^[2]

His work is inspired by the conviction that loneliness and the feeling of being unloved are the greatest poverties.^[3] Thierry de Roucy was 18 when he entered the religious congregation of the Servants of Jesus and Mary in France. He received his bachelor and master of Philosophy from the Institute of Comparative Philosophy in Paris. He is an alumnus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum in Rome where he earned a Master of Theology. He was ordained a priest in 1983. From 1988 to 2001, he was the Superior General of his congregation.

In 1990, he founded Points Cœur (Heart's Home), a movement striving to bring consolation and compassion to the most wounded people and to restore their dignity through friendship and grassroots services. Since the movement was founded, about 1,400 volunteers of 41 nationalities have been recruited, formed and sent forth by Heart's Home as of March 2013. At the request of former Heart's Home volunteers, Thierry de Roucy founded three new branches of the organization: in 1994, the Servants of God's Presence, a congregation of religious sisters affiliated with Heart's Home; in 1995, the Heart's Home Permanent Members - for lay consecrated men and women - and the Sacerdotal Molokai Fraternity - for seminarians and priests.

Thierry de Roucy also founded a publishing house, "Les éditions du Serviteur", and published about 20 books including his own essays and translated works of Adrienne von Speyr, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Catherine Doherty (among others).^[4] Thierry de Roucy is invited all around the world to participate in conferences and to talk about Heart's Home. He has published several essays on spirituality and theology.^[5][6]

In the United-States, Thierry de Roucy opened three centers: a Heart's Home in Brooklyn, New York, provides assistance and support to isolated and challenged individuals from local Housing Projects, Nursing Homes, Hospitals and Shelters;^[7] a Heart's Home on the campus of Gonzaga University, in Spokane, Washington; the International Center for a Culture of Compassion located upstate New York (United States).^[8]

Today, Thierry de Roucy shares his time between the International Center for a Culture of Compassion.^[8] and his travels around the world to open new foundations and to visit the 41 Heart's Home houses and the 2 Heart's Home villages located in 23 countries as of March 2013.