Catholic Religious

The Old Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter of New Orleans

08/20/2023 at 2:27 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Peter Kwasniewski, New Liturgical Movement, August 07, 2023 During my trip last month to Louisiana, I had the pleasure of spending a good part of a day walking around the French Quarter of New Orleans in the company of David Liberto, a long-time Thomist professor at Notre Dame Seminary, and... read more

Sisters founded by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in New York vote to stop accepting new members, begin ‘path to completion’

05/04/2023 at 10:31 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Beth Griffen, Our Sunday Visitor, May 4, 2023 Delegates to the Sisters of Charity of New York's 2023 general assembly vote unanimously April 13 to stop recruiting or accepting new members and begin a "path to completion" while continuing to live their mission to the fullest. The congregation... read more

Springfield diocese establishing Evermode Institute

03/03/2022 at 12:38 PM By Kevin Edward White
Alton Telegraph, March 3, 2022 SPRINGFIELD — The Diocese of Springfield in Illinois on Thursday announced plans to establish The Evermode Institute. The new center for Catholic spiritual and intellectual formation will include priests from the Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey... read more

Pope: Avoiding the word “Christmas” to be “inclusive” echoes dictatorships

12/06/2021 at 3:48 PM By Kevin Edward White
Pope warns against the "colonialism" of values and ideas. By I.Media for Aleteia, December 6, 2021 “The document on Christmas is an anachronism,” said Pope Francis on the plane which brought him back from Athens to Rome on December 6, 2021. He was referring to a draft document of the... read more

Profound Playfulness in the Spiritual Life

12/02/2021 at 9:06 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Anna Kalinowska, One Peter Five, December 2, 2021 I knelt right up against the rail of the transept loft, on level with the baldacchino, my back heated by the sun streaming through the rose window with the Sacred Heart. The people pressing close on either side of me stood as the nuns,... read more

Why is the Vatican Assailing Contemplative Life?

11/19/2021 at 10:35 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Mary Cuff, Cisis, November 16, 2021 The future of contemplative orders in the Catholic Church is under siege, not by the oft-bemoaned vocations crisis, but by Archbishop Josè Rodrìguez Carballo, the secretary for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of... read more

Chicago considers canceling Marquette University’s namesake from public parks

03/19/2021 at 10:41 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
Chicago considers canceling Marquette University’s namesake from public parks ESTHER WERMER - BOYCE COLLEGE •MARCH 18, 2021 Jacques Marquette’s order said they trust the city to do a good job A Chicago advisory committee tasked with exploring controversial works of art has set its... read more

Teaching to Get to Heaven

03/14/2021 at 10:13 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Fr. John Henry, Crisis, March 6, 2021 “If young people are educated properly, we have moral order; if not, vice and disorder prevail. Religion alone can initiate and achieve a true education.”  St. John Bosco’s understanding of Catholic education seems far from the prevailing view... read more

Typical new US religious: 38-year-old cradle Catholic who regularly took part in Eucharistic adoration

01/29/2021 at 4:13 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Catholic World News, January 27, 2021 The typical religious who professed perpetual vows in 2020 is a 38-year-old cradle Catholic who regularly prayed the Rosary and took part in Eucharistic adoration before entering religious life, according to a survey released by the United States Conference... read more

Attacker of religious sister arrested amid spate of anti-Catholicism in Austria

11/02/2020 at 8:36 PM By Kevin Edward White
CNA Staff, Nov 2, 2020 After a Catholic religious sister was attacked on a bus, police have arrested a 19-year-old Afghan, according to police in the Austrian state of Styria. The attack came among a spate of anti-Catholic attacks and demonstrations in Austria. Between 30 and 50 young... read more
Sister Simone Campbell

Pro-Abortion Nun Will Speak at Democrat Convention as Biden Tries to Fool Catholics

08/20/2020 at 11:38 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews, August 19, 2020 A nun who once praised a prominent abortion activist for celebrating her abortion has been invited to speak at the Democratic National Convention this week. Biden supports abortions on demand and wants to force taxpayers to fund them. His running... read more

Slavery, Racism and the Church

07/26/2020 at 6:12 PM By Kevin Edward White

Biden Says He Would Rescind Exemption for Little Sisters of the Poor

07/10/2020 at 5:46 PM By Kevin Edward White

Junípero Serra and the Founding of the West

07/08/2020 at 7:33 AM By Kevin Edward White

Vatican orders founder to leave ecumenical community

05/28/2020 at 10:46 AM By Kevin Edward White

Pope Francis Sets Aside Proposal on Married Priests

02/13/2020 at 5:49 PM By Kevin Edward White

Little Sisters return to Supreme Court for third time in new contraception case

01/17/2020 at 7:14 PM By Kevin Edward White
A Sister of Life at opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life.

The new Sisterhood: traditional orders are booming

01/09/2020 at 9:56 AM By Kevin Edward White