Book tries to lift veil on abuse within women’s religious communities
By Cindy Wooden – “I understood we were all like dogs. They told us to sit and we sat, to get up and we got up, to...
Category: Religious Life
Novices Speak: The Sisters We Want to Be
The process of discerning the vocation to the religious life is long. Four novices speak about their vocation journey, and what kind of Sisters they hope to...
Pope to Paulines: Prayer is the most important means of communication
Pope Francis urged members of the Pauline Family on Thursday to remember that prayer is “the most important means of communication.” The papal audience in the Vatican’s...
Trappist monk, last survivor of Algerian monastery attack, dead at 97
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Trappist Father Jean-Pierre Schumacher, the last survivor of the 1996 attack on the Tibhirine monastery in Algeria, died at the age of...
Pope to Canonise Blessed Charles de Foucauld
By Cindy Wooden – Blessed Charles de Foucauld and six other candidates for sainthood finally will be canonised on May 15, 2022, the Vatican announced. The final...
Pope Francis asks religious sisters to pray for him: ‘It is not easy to be the pope’
Pope Francis paid a visit to the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians on Friday and asked the religious sisters to pray for him as they live...
Jesuit Astronomer: It takes a Lot of Faith to do Science
By Carol Glatz – According to a self-described “fanatic” about science and “a bit of a nerd” for the Catholic Church, people should not ask this Jesuit...
My Vowed Life as a Sister
October is Mission Month, when we reflect on ways to evangelise and pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Here Sr Bongani Ester Chuma writes...
Sister Gloria Argoti Freed after 5 Years Captivity
By Walter Sanchez Silva – Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti, a missionary who was abducted in Mali in February 2017 and held for nearly five years, posted Sunday...
Woman religious who crusaded against nuclear weapons dies at 91
Sister Megan Rice, whose yearslong crusade against nuclear weapons included serving two years behind bars for a felony, died October 10 at the Rosemont, Pennsylvania residence of...
Altar bread-baking sister hopes Communion discussion prompts understanding
By Carol Zimmermann – Holy Communion – so sacred and central to the Catholic faith – has simple beginnings with the religious sisters who make these altar...
90 Years for the Sisters of Mount Carmel!
The Sisters of Mount Carmel celebrated 90 years of presence in the Archdiocese of Johannesburg! Archbishop Buti Tlhagale and Fr Chris Townsend concelebrated a rousing Mass attended...
