Articles on this issue "consecrated"
Sister Sara Salkahazi, a nun shot to death for sheltering Jews in Hungary during World War II, will be beatified in Budapest this fall. Bishop Andras Veres, secretary of the Hungarian bishops' …
read moreBenedict XVI says that "courageous choices are needed, at the personal and community level," to rediscover and to show the beauty of following Christ in a consecrated life. The Pope posed this …
read moreThe Vatican is planning to launch a new Web site this autumn, aimed at bringing together the faithful so they can interact, says Business Week magazine. The publication in its May 8 issue …
read moreBenedict XVI's teaching on the dignity and mission of women takes up again, in a sense, the thought of Pope John Paul II, says a professor of theology. Salesian Sister Marcellina Farina, who …
read moreAbandonment to love and total self-giving to God was the path that led Discalced Carmelite Sister Elias of St. Clement to be beatified. Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Vatican …
read moreThe mortal remains of Sister Lucia, witness of the 1917 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin, have left the Carmelite Convent of Coimbra, to rest in the Shrine of Fatima. The body of the nun, who …
read moreHere is a translation of the homily Benedict XVI gave Feb. 2, World Day of Consecrated Life, in St. Peter\'s Basilica. The Pope spoke at an evening Mass for religious on the feast of the …
read moreThe Vatican\'s evangelization dicastery paid particular homage to consecrated women, whose contribution it sees as crucial for spreading the Gospel. Anticipating today\'s 10th World Day of …
read moreThe first service that consecrated persons offer is to show a life totally committed to God, said Benedict XVI on World Day of Consecrated Life. This celebration, held today on the feast of …
read moreLove is the only key to understanding a life given completely to God, said Benedict XVI on the eve of the World Day of Consecrated Life. The Pope said today to the thousands who gathered in …
read moreBenedict XVI\'s first encyclical, \"Deus Caritas Est,\" suggests numerous poetic images. To reflect on its poetic aspects in greater depth, ZENIT interviewed art critic Sister Maria Gloria …
read moreTo present God to a world overwhelmed by hedonism, materialism and individualism, the Church needs the testimony of chastity, poverty and obedience of consecrated persons, says Benedict XVI. …
read moreTwo Brazilian men were convicted of killing an Ohio-born woman religious who worked with the poor and tried to save the Amazon rain forest. Rayfran das Neves Sales and Clodoaldo Carlos Batista …
read moreThe cause of beatification has opened for Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, a 60-year-old religious murdered by three girls during a Satanic rite in 2000. Bishop Alessandro Maggiolini of Como …
read moreHere is translation of the letter sent to participants in the plenary assembly of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, held Sept. 26-27. …
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