Vatican could learn a thing or two about renewal from women religious
From Where I Stand: The church could use this opportunity to do a little demystifying to better connect with the 21st-century world.
Sisters' Stories
Support for LCWR drives monthly California vigils
A group of LCWR supporters keeps an hour-long vigil monthly in Santa Rosa, Calif., to pray, sing and tell stores about specific sisters.
Global sisters elect Maltese teacher as president
Maltese Sr. Carmen Sammut, the leader of her congregation since 2011, takes over from the first American to hold the post.
For LCWR, the more the papacy changes, the more it stays the same
Grace on the Margins: A month after his election, Pope Francis put a damper on some's high hopes for him by holding the line on LCWR.
Vatican official: Reporting on rift over sisters 'precise'
Q and A: Cardinal João Braz de Aviz said NCR's report of his talk Sunday gave one inaccurate translation but otherwise was accurate.
New Vatican religious leader to US sisters: 'Keep hope'
Q and A: The new secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Religious also said the church should not exclude anyone.
Vatican denies rift over handling of US sisters
NCR Today: The Vatican press office issued a statement Tuesday saying recent remarks by a Vatican official do not indicate a split among Vatican offices.
LCWR president talks church authority, dialogue
Q and A: Obeying church authority involves listening to God from many sources, says the president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
'Ultimate obedience' to God, sister tells religious heads
Speaking to global women religious, a theologian says they owe "ultimate obedience" to God, founded in the needs of the poor.
Religious life calls Air Force vet who once produced nuclear weapons
Salesian Sr. Jennifer Kane is a living conversion story, who has gone, she said, from "bombs to Bibles."
A 16-year military veteran who at one time was a missile systems engineer working on intercontinental nuclear weapons, Kane is preparing to make her first profession of vows with the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco in August.
How does someone make the conversion?
"By the grace of God, that's the only thing I can tell you," Kane told the Catholic Courier, newspaper of the diocese of Rochester. She said her vocational path "is long and it is crazy."
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In This Issue
May 10-23, 2013
- Illinois parish's ESL program welcomes all
- A different Mary assumes the stage
- A question few seem to consider when the US wages war afar
- [Print Edition Only] Special Section: Summer Listings
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