Pope to hermits: Your isolation is a connection with God, others, creation October 14, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Vatican, World News Modern hermits seek solitude not to escape the world but to learn how to listen more closely to God, to their neighbors and to creation, Pope Leo XIV said as he met about 50 Italian hermits who came to the Vatican for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life.
Sister Jean, beloved Loyola icon and chaplain of men’s basketball team, dies at 106 October 10, 2025By John Knebels OSV News Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Obituaries, Sports, World News Sister Jean, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and longtime chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men’s basketball team, died Oct. 9. She was 106.
Consecrated men, women point the path to peace, salvation, pope says October 10, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Consecrated men and women can wake up the world, being small beacons of light pointing the way to God’s plan of peace and salvation for humanity, Pope Leo XIV said.
Consecrated life shows beauty of authentic love, trust in God, pope says October 9, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Consecrated men and women, who abandon themselves “like children into the arms of the Father,” spread “the ‘fresh air’ of authentic love throughout the world,” he said in his homily during Mass in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 9, marking the Jubilee of Consecrated Life.
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.
