Category: Religious life
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Nun Performs on Italy’s “The Voice”
At the top of my Facebook news feed this morning was a video of an amazingly talented nun who recently performed on Italy’s “The Voice.”
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Viewpoint: Radical Renewal Needed for Religious Life
Today, many women’s religious orders and congregations seem headed for a very insecure future (to put it mildly), or worse, extinction.
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Come, Follow… Francis spurs interest in religious life and lay ministry
There has been a notable rise in interest in exploring a vocation to the Jesuits — as well as to other communities and lay ministry — since Pope Francis was elected.
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From Blackfriar Films
Is this inculturation, the new evangelization, the next reinvention of religious life? What do you make of it?
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An era that has passed away
It is clear that Pope Francis does not want to go back 60 years, to a time before the Council. He does not want to restore practices from a bygone era, or claim continuity with them. Significantly, he has named that era as one which has passed away.
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Guessing How Pope Francis Might Treat the U.S. Sisters
“The most we can hope for is that the Italian method is followed where it quietly slips to the background and life goes on,” Sister Simone Campbell said.
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Cardinal Bergoglio (Pope Francis) Clashed with New Religious Order; Cardinal Sodano Came to Its Defense
Argentine media report that Cardinal Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, clashed with the very conservative religious order “Institute of the Incarnate Word,” founded by Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela in Argentina in 1984.
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St. Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church!
I will go and chill some champagne (or should it be German “Sekt”)? We have a fourth woman who now is among the “Doctors of the Church.”
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Liturgy at Abbots’ Congress in Rome – Some Reforms
I’m sure there are varying opinions about celebrating the liturgy in Latin. In this case, it wasn’t my decision to do so. That decision was already made, and it was my role to make it happen.