Pope Francis Urges Consecrated Men and Women to Cultivate ‘an Intense Interior Life’
‘Every day, the Lord visits us, speaks to us, reveals himself in unexpected ways,’ the Pope said.
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Why the Catholic Church Celebrates Consecrated Life
Instituted by Pope St. John Paul II in 1997, the World Day of Consecrated Life recognizes religious and members of societies of apostolic life on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord.
Religious Sisters Change Lives, and Sister Aaron Winkelman Changed Mine
Teachers like Sister Aaron may never get the thanks they deserve, but they have done more good than they know.
Pope Francis Extends Time to Appeal Dismissal From Consecrated Life
Pope Francis changed canon 700 in the Code of Canon Law to give a person 30 days to lodge an appeal from the day of receiving the notification of the decree of dismissal. It formerly gave 10 days.
Pope Francis on World Day for Consecrated Life: Religious Have ‘Special Role’ in the Church
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.
World Day for Consecrated Life: 5 Things Every Catholic Should Know
The day “answers the intimate need to praise the Lord more solemnly and to thank him for the great gift of consecrated life.”
Pope Francis Tells Religious Sisters Fight Back When Mistreated by ‘Men of the Church’
Pope Francis has asked Catholics to pray in a particular way in the month of February for religious sisters and consecrated women.
In the Body of the Church, Each Vocation Strengthens All Vocations
“Ecclesial communion is … characterized by a diversity and a complementarity of vocations and states in life … Because of this diversity and complementarity every member of the lay faithful is seen in relation to the whole body and offers a totally unique contribution on behalf of the whole body.” —Pope St. John Paul II
Pope Francis Names Women Members of Consecrated Life Congregation
Demonstrating Pope Francis’ increased attention to putting women in leadership within the Vatican, the appointments follow the 2014 nomination of Sr. Irma Luzia Premoli, superior general of the Comboni Missionaries, as a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Pope: Consecrated Men and Women Are Custodians of Wonder
Year of Consecrated Life concludes: ‘How beautiful is it when we encounter the happy face of consecrated persons, perhaps already advanced in years like Simeon or Anna, content and full of gratitude for their vocation,’ the Holy Father said on Feb. 2.
