Category: Religious orders

Religious forum calls on Church leaders to tackle injustice in India

by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2022 | Church in Asia, Church in India, India, lead, News, Religious orders | 0 |

Religious brothers and sisters of India pledged to be “engaged with those on the periphery” and called on Church leaders to do more to help.

Hit-and-run by priest in Brazil stirs controversy within Dominican order

by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Brazil, Canon Law, Church in the Americas, Dominicans, lead, News, Religious orders | 0 |

Forty-one-year-old Ângelo Nogueira, who allegedly robbed about $7.50 in coins from a Catholic rectory on May 5 and was run down by a Dominican priest afterwards, died July 27 from injuries sustained in the collision.

Do not hide reality of abuse, pope tells religious orders

by bcadmin | Jul 15, 2022 | From the Pope, News, Reality of abuse, Religious orders | 0 |

Religious orders must never tolerate the abuse of children or vulnerable persons, and they must end the practice of moving alleged abusers to other countries, Pope Francis said.

Pope adds preliminary step for creating diocesan religious orders

by bcadmin | Jun 15, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Congregation for Religious, News, Pope Francis, Religious orders, Vatican | 0 |

Pope Francis issued a decree requiring bishops to obtain written permission from the Vatican to start an “association of the faithful” as a first step toward forming a religious order.

Religious brothers can be superiors of orders with priests, pope says

by bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Canon Law, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Religious brothers, Religious orders, Vatican | 0 |

Pope Francis said the Vatican office that deals with religious orders can permit men’s communities that are made up of both priests and brothers to choose one of the brothers to be a provincial superior or even the superior general.

New book points to need for racial reckoning in women’s religious orders

by bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | American nuns, Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Racism, Religious orders | 0 |

Shannen Dee Williams describes her upcoming book about Black Catholic sisters as a “labor of love.”

‘Listening circles’ promote encounters with Indigenous at parish level

by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2022 | Canada, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the Americas, indigenous communities, Jesuits, News, Religious orders | 0 |

If average lay Catholics aren’t involved in some way in reconciliation, will there be reconciliation?

Atonement friars at assembly discuss pope’s call for ‘Synod on Synodality’

by bcadmin | Mar 23, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Religious orders, synodality | 0 |

The Franciscan Friars of the Atonement spent their recent assembly “examining the future of our ecumenical ministry, our social ministry, our pastoral ministry and the future of the formation of religious life.”

Pope urges Augustinian Recollects to be realistic about vocations drop

by bcadmin | Mar 17, 2022 | Augustinians, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, priest shortage, Religious orders, Vatican, Vocations | 0 |

With the number of vocations to religious life dropping, sometimes precipitously, communities must trust in God but also plan for the future by educating laypeople to carry on their work and spirituality, Pope Francis said.

Monasticism sees a renewal as people seek meaning in a rushed world

by bcadmin | Feb 19, 2022 | Benedictine nuns, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Monastic Life, News, Religious orders, Spirituality | 0 |

Monastic traditions — including stability, silence, community, hospitality, love of learning and continual growth, to name a few — are speaking to this moment, and those ranging from the nonreligious to apostolic Catholic sisters are listening.

In Myanmar, Columban-run center offers recovery chance for addicted women

by bcadmin | Feb 5, 2022 | Addiction, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, Myanmar, News, Religious orders | 0 |

The Catholic Church has opened the first residential center offering rehabilitation to women in Myanmar battling drug addiction.

Safer spaces: Protecting the dignity of consecrated people

by bcadmin | Feb 5, 2022 | Abuse prevention, Abuse survivors, Catholic News Service, Consecrated Life, Global church, News, Pope Francis, Religious orders, Vos Estis Lux Mundi | 0 |

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.