Women Religious Answer Call to Serve During 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
April 17, 2020By Franca Braatz and Michelle Powers The Spanish influenza was an undetected killer sweeping the globe as the world was in the […]
Topic: Religious Life
Pope Speaks With U.S. Bishops Ahead of Amazon Synod Document
February 11, 2020By Emily Drooby ROME (CNS) — Talking about debates, differences and discernment, Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops that people […]
A Look at Pope Francis’s Document on the Amazon Synod
February 11, 2020Currents News Staff Pope Francis is about to share his decisions on what he wants to happen after the Amazon summit. The […]
A Little Sister of the Poor Turns 100
February 5, 2020By Jessica Easthope and Allyson Escobar QUEENS VILLAGE — Call it the century-long luck of the Irish: Sister Mary Monica, L.S.P., a […]
Three Decades of Service in Rural India
February 3, 2020By Melissa Butz Sister Crescensia Sun is a missionary sister who works in healthcare in India. The Sisters of Our Lady of […]
Written From the Heart: Nun Publishes Books Focused on God’s Love
January 8, 2020By Tim Harfmann Inside the living room of her Bayside, Queens home, Sister Ave Clark is a nun with a notepad who […]
Pope to Make Final Decision on Married Clergy, Women Deacons Following Amazon Synod
October 28, 2019By Melissa Butz The Amazon summit is over, but there’s still controversy. The bishops at the Synod voted overwhelmingly to recommend that […]
Synod Offers Cautious Support For Married Priests, Study of Women Deacons
October 28, 2019By Christopher White, The Tablet’s National Correspondent and Inés San Martín ROME (Crux) – Catholic communities in the Amazon might be able […]
Women Religious Speak Out on Voting in Amazon Synod
October 11, 2019By Melissa Butz Inside the meeting hall for the Synod on the Amazon, there are 35 women participants in various roles. At […]
Amazon Synod to Study Possibility of Ordaining Married Priests
June 17, 2019Currents News Staff The Vatican has recently presented its working document for the Synod on Panama, entitled ‘Amazon: New Roads for the […]