The 24th World Day for Consecrated Life Feb calls consecrated men and women to be the light of the world. Candelight procession during Mass with members of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the ...

Consecrated women and men — together with Catholics in general — are invited to celebrate the World Day for Consecrated Life this week. Established by St. John Paul II, the day recognizes the beauty ...

Pope Leo XIV greets consecrated men and women during an Oct. 10 audience for the Jubilee for Consecrated Life inside the Vatican’s Paul VI audience hall. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – Pope ...

Religious hold candles as Pope Francis celebrates Mass marking the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in this Feb. 2, 2017, file photo. The Vatican office ...

Whenever secularism, a godless system, seems to engulf society, Christianity proves to be the more persistent. This is what we witnessed when hundreds of religious women and men working in Uganda ...

An Indian Catholic devotee holds a cross as she takes part in a protest in Mumbai on Feb. 9, 2015. (Photo: AFP/UCAN files) Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, has in recent years been ...

One August morning, I walked to the front of the church in my white gown, nervous and excited. Family and friends stood in the pews of Queen of Apostles in Alexandria, Virginia. They smiled and wiped ...

JENNINGS — Alicia Pousson did not choose her vocation. It came as a gift from God, she said. By profession, Pousson, 34, of Iota works as a case manager for people with developmental disabilities for ...

One August morning, I walked to the front of the church in my white gown, nervous and excited. Family and friends stood in the pews of Queen of Apostles in Alexandria, Virginia. They smiled and wiped ...

Like many love stories, Tara Stone's eventually led to the altar. The bride-to-be wore white, her long hair gathered up in a sleek bun. And as she marked time through the long hours before the evening ...

The bride wore white and carried a dozen red roses. But when the ceremony ended, Alice Claire Mansfield did not toss her bouquet in the air. Instead, dressed in a long white alb, Mansfield walked with ...

Everyone dreams of a perfect relationship... a perfect marriage... a perfect love. But just like any good love story, there are challenges and self-doubts. We often wonder if the love we chose is ...