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by bcadmin | Nov 21, 2022 | Celebrity, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italy, lead, News, Nuns, Religious Life | 0 |
In a disappointing, but perhaps, for some, unsurprising turn of events for fans of “Suor Cristina,” Italy’s most famous singing nun, the Ursuline sister and winner of a major vocal competition announced that she has left religious life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 18, 2022 | Call to religious life, Discernment, News, Practicing Catholic, Religious Life, religious vocation, religious vocations, seminary | 0 |
In the past six months, Father David Blume, director of vocations for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, has noticed a bit of an uptick in the number of people inquiring about support for discerning their vocation. “Every year I think, ‘Lord, thank you for all those who are stepping forward,’” he said. “‘And I don’t want to be greedy, Lord, but if there’s a few more out there, shake the tree, Lord.’”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 7, 2022 | Bishop Joseph Williams, Christ the King Retreat Center in Buffalo, Father David Blume, News, Practicing Catholic, Religious Life | 0 |
Young men considering religious life in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis will have opportunities to learn more about it from the archdiocese’s two bishops.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Norbertines, Religious Life | 0 |
However you choose to observe Michaelmas, the feast of St. Michael and All Angels Sept. 29, the Norbertine priests of St. Michael’s Abbey will possibly be enjoying it more.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 26, 2022 | Capuchins, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Religious Life, Religious Sisters, Vatican | 0 |
The humility of silence can help Christians sift through the loud and divisive noise in the world in order to listen to and discern God’s will, Pope Francis told a group of Capuchin sisters.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 27, 2022 | News, Religious Life | 0 |
Above: Dom Alcuin Reid pictured with Cardinal Burke in 2014 (New Liturgical Movement). Dom Alcuin Reid has been for years a respected liturgical scholar in the Church (Cardinal Ratzinger wrote the forward to his seminal work published by Ignatius Press). He […]
by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Bose Monastery, Church in Europe, Enzo Bianchi, lead, Monastic Life, News, Religious Life | 0 |
Italian lay monk Enzo Bianchi, founder of a popular ecumenical monastery who was exiled from the community as a result of internal tensions, has announced the formation of a new spiritual center in northern Italy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 29, 2022 | Bose Monastery, Church in Europe, Enzo Bianchi, lead, Monastic Life, News, Religious Life | 0 |
Italian lay monk Enzo Bianchi, founder of a popular ecumenical monastery who was exiled from the community as a result of internal tensions, has announced the formation of a new spiritual center in northern Italy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 20, 2022 | Devil, Fatima, Hell, Latin America, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Religious Life, Traditionalists, Virgin Mary | 0 |
For the all the ways he comes off as a maverick, a disrupter and a revolutionary, there are nonetheless senses in which Pope Francis is also extremely traditional, perhaps even more than his two immediate predecessors.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 16, 2022 | Code of Canon Law, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Decentralization, motu proprio, News, News Analysis, priestly formation, Religious Life, Seminaries | 0 |
By the time it’s all said and done, Pope Francis is destined to be the Henry Aaron of motu propri, meaning the all-time king with a career total really hard to surpass.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | Catholic women, Interviews, lead, News, Religious Life, Theology, Women religious | 0 |
One theologian has voiced her belief that the vow obedience in religious life, while necessary, is ill-defined and because of this, has allowed the abuse and mistreatment of religious women for decades.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, Consecrated Life, Gospel, lead, Liturgy, News, Pope Francis, Religious Life, Vatican | 0 |
During a special Mass for men and women consecrated and religious Pope Francis urged those who have made vows to always find new joy in Jesus despite the challenges they face in dwindling numbers, mundanity, cultural resistance, and conflicts.
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