SILVERADO, Calif. — Consecrated religious men and women, once the backbone of Catholic education in the United States, have declined in number dramatically in 30 years. So have the schools they shaped ...

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 ...

Pope Francis’ message was read at the beginning of a Mass for consecrated men and women in Rome’s St. Mary Major Basilica on Feb. 2. Pope Francis greets the crowd at his Sunday Angelus address on Jan.

Sister Tiziana Merletti, SFP, secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, visited Bangladesh Dec. 16–21, meeting with religious men and women across ...

Pope Francis has asked Brazil's men and women religious to fight worldly tendencies as they began their first national Week of Consecrated Religious Life on Aug. 16. In a message addressed to ...

Women and men religious have a unique and powerful opportunity to lead the Catholic Church in its synodal conversion, San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy told people gathered Nov. 10 at the Religious ...

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 ...

This will be the fifth, and last, of my columns in this short series on the Holy Spirit. Admittedly, there is still so much that can and ought to be said about the need for a more robust pneumatology ...

There are many servants of prayer within the Christian way of life. The first servant of prayer is the Christian family. Such an affirmation is an acknowledgement of the sacredness of married life and ...

Pope Francis greets a woman during his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Jan. 26, 2022.(Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ROME — Pope Francis encouraged religious sisters and ...