Pope Francis on Thursday addressed a message to participants in a conference on consecrated religious life currently taking place in Brazil. In his message, he expressed his gratitude for “the immense ...

COMMENTARY: A large number of the nation’s most prominent religious communities did not even exist at the time of the previous National Eucharistic Congress in 1941. Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of ...

Nicole Bettini, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ delegate for consecrated life, said that as she has walked with people discerning their vocations, she feels as though she has “a front row ...

Sister Norma Nunez, with the Hospitaler Sisters of Mercy, has served at Metanoia for 10 years. “My vocation is to love the ...

Every society has had groups of men and women who have pursued a community life at variance with that of mainstream society, and thus paradoxically transforming their societies for the better. They ...

Through the gift of their vocation and their different charisms, consecrated men and women play a central role in the Catholic Church's mission to spread the Gospel, Pope Francis said. "Indeed in many ...

RACINE -Ê To recognize the commitment of priests, nuns, monks and others who dedicated themselves to religious service, Catholics in Racine County and throughout the Milwaukee Archdiocese will ...

Since the time of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, people have been drawn to a life devoted to God, and many have followed. However, as the number of consecrated religious dwindles, many questions ...

The challenge of addressing abuse within consecrated life — in all its dimensions: sexual, power, conscience, and also economic — was the focus of an international meeting organized by the Pontifical ...

Just a couple miles from where the all-male cardinals of the Catholic Church are gathering to elect a new pope, nearly a thousand Catholic sisters in leadership can be found contemplating their own ...