The 24th World Day for Consecrated Life Feb calls consecrated men and women to be the light of the world. Candelight procession during Mass with members of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the ...

Consecrated women and men — together with Catholics in general — are invited to celebrate the World Day for Consecrated Life this week. Established by St. John Paul II, the day recognizes the beauty ...

Every society has had groups of men and women who have pursued a community life at variance with that of mainstream society, and thus paradoxically transforming their societies for the better. They ...

Whenever secularism, a godless system, seems to engulf society, Christianity proves to be the more persistent. This is what we witnessed when hundreds of religious women and men working in Uganda ...

The bride wore white and carried a dozen red roses. But when the ceremony ended, Alice Claire Mansfield did not toss her bouquet in the air. Instead, dressed in a long white alb, Mansfield walked with ...

Three brides in long, white dresses stood before the altar of the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit. There was not a single groom in sight. Like the 10 wise virgins from Matthew’s ...

VATICAN CITY — Members of religious orders and other consecrated men and women take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in the desire to live the Gospel in a more radical way. It’s a way of life ...

The desire for security is a fundamental human need. In today’s world, many people pursue higher education, stable employment and material comfort in the hope of ensuring peace of mind and a ...

Fr. Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, has been appointed as the next executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and ...

In this file photo, Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit prays over three women consecrated as virgins during a ceremony at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit. (Credit: Joel ...

JENNINGS — Alicia Pousson did not choose her vocation. It came as a gift from God, she said. By profession, Pousson, 34, of Iota works as a case manager for people with developmental disabilities for ...

OGDENSBURG — Sister Mary Eamon will walk down the aisle, in a manner of speaking, on Sunday when Diocese of Ogdensburg Bishop Terry LaValley will celebrate the Mass of Solemn Consecration to the Life ...