Why St. Thérèse continues to inspire believers today — especially those who suffer October 5, 2025By Katarzyna Szalajko OSV News Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, News, Saints, World News St. Thérèse is often seen as a “sweet saint of roses,” a childlike figure whose holiness seemed effortless. Yet behind this image was a young Carmelite who embraced the demands of cloistered life, endured spiritual darkness, and suffered from tuberculosis, dying at just 24.
Study into sexual abuse of women religious sheds light on spiritual abuse September 26, 2025By Sarah Mac Donald OSV News Filed Under: Books, Consecrated Life, News, World News The first research study into the sexual abuse of women religious in German-speaking countries has shown a common pattern of spiritual abuse with global cases and highlighted that the majority of abuse is perpetrated by men, although some sisters were abused also by women superiors.
Pope praises women’s religious orders for courage, generosity September 23, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Vatican, World News In its religious orders, the Catholic Church has an array of strong, courageous and generous women who care for the poor, defend peace and share the Gospel message of salvation in Christ, Pope Leo XIV said.
Religious obedience is ‘act of love’ that builds community, pope says September 19, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News For members of religious orders, obedience is “an act of love” and a powerful witness to the world of how gestures of selflessness are needed to build true community, Pope Leo said.
School Sisters of Notre Dame announce election of new provincial council September 17, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Local News, News Sister Nancy Gilchriest was elected to a four-year term as provincial leader along with a new five-sister council by the School Sisters of Notre Dame of the Atlantic-Midwest Province.
‘Nuns on the run’ case in Austria highlights plight of aging, dwindling religious September 16, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Vocations, World News Three elderly women religious in Austria fled their nursing home and have returned to their longtime monastery, defying church superiors in a case that highlights the impact of Vatican regulations regarding aging members of dwindling religious congregations.
SSND’s Villa Assumpta residents plan move to new Stella Maris facility September 10, 2025By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Local News, News After more than seven decades of residence at a prominent property in Baltimore County, the School Sisters of Notre Dame are scheduled to leave their regional mother house, Villa Assumpta, this fall.
From Final Four fame to 106: Sister Jean still cheering Loyola on September 6, 2025By John Knebels OSV News Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Sports, World News Sister Jean captured the hearts of college basketball fans when, as team chaplain, she inspired Loyola University of Chicago to a Final Four berth in the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
Irish missionary freed after monthlong kidnapping in Haiti amid worsening gang violence September 3, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Missions, News, World News A longtime Irish missionary in Haiti has been freed after nearly a month of captivity. Gena Heraty, who has been working in Haiti for 30 years, was freed along with the other hostages captured Aug. 3 after gunmen breached the Saint-Hélène orphanage in Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince.
Sister Kathleen Shannon, Baltimore native and math teacher, dies at 70 August 26, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral service was held Aug. 23 for Daughter of Charity Sister Kathleen Shannon, a Baltimore native and math teacher. She died Aug. 20 at age 70 of lymphoma at Villa St. Michael in Emmitsburg.
Beatification cause for Minnesota Benedictine sister opens August 23, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Saints, World News The beatification cause for Sister Annella Zervas, a Benedictine sister from Minnesota, will formally begin this fall, Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., announced Aug. 20.
As numbers decline, communities age, women religious urged to discern their ’emerging future’ August 20, 2025By Andrew Nelson The Georgia Bulletin Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, World News From a message that “dread is not of God” to a “pilgrimage of hope,” several hundred Catholic sisters and guests gathered in downtown Atlanta for the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
