Category: UISG

Amid push for new women’s roles, sisters highlight what they’re already doing

by bcadmin | Jul 14, 2022 | Catholic women, Church in Europe, Environment, lead, leadership, Missionaries, News, Pope Francis, UISG, Women religious | 0 |

With the push for a greater inclusion of women in positions of leadership in the Church continuing to gain steam, the largest global umbrella group of women religious is highlighting what women are already doing across a variety of fields.

New head of umbrella group for women’s religious sets sights on synodality

by bcadmin | May 21, 2022 | Catholic News Service, International Union of Superiors General, lead, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters, UISG, Vatican | 0 |

The newly-elected president of one of the largest international conglomerates of women religious, is set on creating a global network of collaboration among congregations based on Pope Francis’s much-touted spirit of synodality.

Religious orders launch initiative to care for sisters with dementia

by bcadmin | May 15, 2022 | Alzheimer’s, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, UISG, Women religious | 0 |

Having a member over 100 years old is not unusual today for orders of Catholic women religious.

Religious superiors see realism as important part of synod process

by bcadmin | May 8, 2022 | Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, Catholic News Service, Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Global church, News, UISG | 0 |

With prayer and laughter, songs and furrowed brows, more than 500 superiors of women’s religious orders from around the world gathered in Rome to talk about the challenges they face.

Pope plows forward with schedule despite first appearance in wheelchair

by bcadmin | May 6, 2022 | Benedict XVI, John Paul II, lead, News, Papal health, Pope Francis, UISG, Vatican, Women religious | 0 |

For the first time, Pope Francis Thursday was seen in public being transported in a wheelchair to an audience with the leaders of women’s religious communities, which the Vatican ascribed to his recent difficulties with knee pain.

Pope, using wheelchair, meets superiors of women’s religious orders

by bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Embracing Vulnerability on the Synodal Journey, Featured, Frozen nuns, News, Pope Francis, Pope Francis arrived in a wheelchair, Synod of Bishops, U.S. & World News, UISG, Wheelchair | 0 |

Meeting with superiors general of women’s religious orders, Pope Francis arrived in a wheelchair — the first time he has used one publicly at the Vatican.

‘Embracing vulnerability,’ sisters hope to draw strength, help others

by bcadmin | Apr 30, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Global church, News, UISG, Women religious | 0 |

Superiors of women’s religious orders from around the world will gather in Rome or online to look at their areas of vulnerability and find ways to “embrace” them.

Sisters seek to empower youth in fight against human trafficking

by bcadmin | Oct 15, 2021 | Church in Europe, Human trafficking, lead, News, RENATE, Talitha Kum, U.S. embassy to the Holy See, UISG, Women religious | 0 |

Several women religious who have spent decades working on the frontlines in the fight against human trafficking have stressed the important role young people can play in eradicating the problem.

Frontline sisters say job is to empower the vulnerable, not to speak for them

by bcadmin | Jul 16, 2021 | Church in Europe, Environment, Human trafficking, lead, Migrants, News, Sister Norma Pimentel, UISG, Women, Women religious | 0 |

Sisters working on the frontlines in various fields said their role as advocates is not about speaking for the people they assist, but empowering those individuals to find their own voice.

‘Synodality’ and women’s empowerment go together, leading sisters say

by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2021 | lead, News, Sr. Nathalie Becquart, Synod of Bishops, synodality, UISG, Vatican, Women | 0 |

A top Vatican official, and one of the most celebrated examples of Pope Francis’s commitment to hearing the voices of women, has called the concept of synodality the pope promotes a process of empowerment for the entire Church.

Leading nun says decision-making shouldn’t be a matter of ordination

by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Ireland, lead, News, UISG, Vatican, Women, Women in the Church, women's ordination | 0 |

One of the Catholic Church’s most visible nuns has said the push for women’s priestly ordination in the Catholic Church points to a deeper question that needs to be asked and stressed the need to separate ordained ministry from decision-making.

Women have mixed reaction to pope’s new law on lectors, acolytes

by bcadmin | Jan 14, 2021 | Catholic Church, lead, Lucetta Scaraffia, Mary McAleese, News, Pope Francis, UISG, Vatican, Women | 0 |

Opinions from women throughout the Catholic world have been divided in the wake of Pope Francis’s new law allowing them to hold a greater role at Mass, with some hailing it as an important step forward, and others saying it doesn’t change the status quo.