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FSPA celebrates Sister Michele’s final vows
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (472+ words) “Today we celebrate the seed of blessing that was planted in Sister Michele’s heart,” shared Sister Helen Elsbernd. “We are grateful that she has responded graciously to God’s call. We praise and thank God for the seed that has grown…...
As US Catholic nuns age, more congregations turn to outside leaders
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1346+ words) "Evolving Religious Life," a continuing series from Global Sisters Report, explores how Catholic sisters are adapting to the realities of congregations in transition and new forms of religious life. While we write often about these trends, this particular series will…...
Sainthood cause advances for Mother Mary Teresa Tallon, foundress of Parish Visitors in NYC
1+ week, 3+ day ago (707+ words) Their relationship only grew from there. Today, Mother Maria Catherine not only serves as general superior of the Parish Visitors, Mother Tallon's contemplative-missionary congregation of religious sisters, but also as vice postulator of Mother Tallon's cause for sainthood. Pope Leo…...
Though he lived 1,500 years ago, St. Benedict is still a man of our times
1+ week, 6+ day ago (325+ words) Benedict lived in a time of turmoil, probably much like our present time. In his time, his monasteries were preservers of civilization. They were safe havens that preserved literature and established agricultural technologies. They were sources of sustenance and relief…...
Q&A with Sr. Joanna Okereke, educating US bishops on hidden communities
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (1015+ words) Sr. Joanna Okereke, a member of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus, fulfilled a dream her mother was never allowed to pursue: to become a nun. Captivated by sisters wearing white habits in her native Nigeria, Okereke's ambition in…...
Sacred Heart visionary's relics travel US amid nation's 250th anniversary
3+ week, 1+ day ago (445+ words) The relics of the French nun to whom Christ revealed his Sacred Heart will be available for public veneration in the U.S. at a number of locations, as the nation — newly consecrated to the Sacred Heart — marks its 250th anniversary. The Knights…...
Q&A with Bangladeshi Sr. Shuly Rozario on missionary life in Brazil
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (841+ words) Sr. Shuly Pascalina Rozario, 48, a member of Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate, grew up in Banpara Parish in northern Bangladesh, where the witness of the sisters quietly shaped her vocation. She joined the congregation and made her first profession on…...
Pope Leo prays at deadly migration hotspot in Spain: 'Human dignity has no passport"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (722+ words) Follow on Twitter at @m/McLellan_Js Before a blue cross made from the wood of a shipwrecked boat, Pope Leo XIV stood at the port of one of Europe's deadliest migrant destinations and said the Catholic Church "cannot remain silent about…...
As congregations shrink, US nuns create landmark archive to preserve their stories
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (791+ words) Visitors browse exhibits at the opening of the Heritage and Research Center at St. Mary's May 26, a collaborative heritage center and archive for 10 congregations of Catholic sisters in the Midwest located in Indiana. (Courtesy of the Heritage and Research Center…...
Teilhard de Chardin points to what Pope Leo missed in 'Magnifica Humanitas"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (615+ words) Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas arrives at a moment of genuine civilizational urgency. Its concern for human dignity, its alarm at the displacement of labor, its refusal to treat artificial intelligence as a neutral instrument — all of these are…...