Wave of Female Monastery Closures Hits Italy
The crisis of vocations, coupled with new policies affecting female contemplative life, is changing Italy’s spiritual and cultural landscape and raising concern and indignation.
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Enclosed in Silence: Cistercians’ Life of Prayer Draws Millennial Women
Wisconsin Cistercians attribute their growing membership to young women seeking to live radically for God in a religious vocation.
Two Religious Sisters Slain in Their Mississippi Home
The sisters, both nurse practitioners, were scheduled to work at Lexington Medical Clinic but never came to work Thursday, prompting their co-workers to call the police.
In Case You Missed It: Young Nuns Are a Trend
There is a young and vital presence of religious sisters, novices and postulants in U.S. Catholic life, a new survey has found. The postulants’ average age is 27, while novices have an average age of 29. Temporary professed sisters have an average age of 32.
Ecuador Quake Victim Sister Clare Inspires Hometown: ‘She Died as She Lived, Helping’
Church leaders in Derry, Northern Ireland, describe how the Irish nun’s life and death has impacted the tight-knit local Catholic community.
Religious Sisters’ Continuing Impact on Catholic Education
How and why three communities love to teach today’s students.
New Orders Spring Forth for the New Evangelization
The Sisters of Our Mother of Divine Grace, Daughters of Mary of Nazareth and Brigittine Servitores have much zeal to share, especially as the Church celebrates the Year of Consecrated Life.
Number of Catholics Increases Throughout the World
According to the latest statistics from Fides news agency, the number of Catholics worldwide increased by more than 15 million.
