Pope: Getting old is not a disease, it’s a privilege
By Carol Glatz – Getting to be a ripe old age is a privilege, Pope Francis told older priests. If facing an illness, that too, becomes a privilege...
Category: Religious Life
Pope: Consecrated life is not doomed to die out
By Carol Glatz – Consecrated life is not doomed to die out, Pope Francis told a group of Discalced Carmelites. “These pessimistic views are destined to be...
Cardinal calls on monastic communities to pray ahead of synod
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Without prayer, especially from the many religious men and women in the contemplative life, the journey of the next Synod of Bishops...
Pope Names Salesian Sister Interim Secretary of Dicastery
By Junno Arocho Esteves – Pope Francis has named Salesian Sister Alessandra Smerilli as interim secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican announced....
Two nuns killed in South Sudan after vehicle ambushed along highway
By Fredrick Nzwili – Two Catholic nuns were shot and killed along a highway in South Sudan on August 16 as they were returning home to Juba....
This was Dominican Sister Aiden Quinlan
In her new book Bloody Sunday, MIGNONNE BREIER investigates the mob killing of a Dominican Sister in 1952, and the circumstances that led to it. Here, the author...
Cathedral Arsonist turns himself in for killing French Montfort provincial
Emmanuel Abayisenga, who was awaiting trial for the arson of the cathedral in Nantes turned himself into police for killing the French provincial of the Montfort Missionaries....
Franciscans open general chapter focusing on diversity, evangelisation
By Cindy Wooden – As a worldwide religious order, Franciscan friars need to find new and better ways to welcome the diversity of their members and allow...
Pope urges Franciscans to recognise God’s presence in the poor
By Cindy Wooden – The renewal of the Franciscan order must start, like the order itself did, from being with and learning to really see poor and...
Mother Cabrini’s order celebrates 75th anniversary of her canonisation
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini is a beacon of hope and life, the general superior of the order founded by the saint, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred...
Book Investigates the Lynching of SA Nun
BLOODY SUNDAY: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre, by Mignonne Breier. Tafelberg, Cape Town (2021). 285pp. Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher It requires courage and...
The Monastic Mystery
There are numerous ways of living the Christian life and each of us is called to a particular way. For many the route is not clear at...
