Sister Brigid Lawlor has been appointed as a Consultor to the Pope at the Vatican office for religious. The appointment named her a Consultor for the Congregation for Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL). The Vatican office has jurisdiction over all aspects of institutes of consecrated life (vowed religious) and societies of apostolic…
Sister Nellie Hawkins entered the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in 1962 and committed herself to a Contemplative Life. She has been baking altar bread ever since. A member of the Contemplative Community in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, Sister Nellie rises at 7 a.m. in the convent every morning for prayers, Mass, and breakfast. She then goes…
Each year Catholic Sisters Week (CSW) is held March 8-14. This year, in honor of CSW, St. Louis Sisters kicked off a year-long online series called Exploring Intersections: Catholic Sisters on Racism, Migration and Climate. The series engages panelists in conversations about societal concerns facing the community. Exploring Intersections deals with issues that religious Sisters…
The new video series about Saint Mary Euphrasia has a back-story. In telling a story to her community of Sisters one day, Saint Mary Euphrasia said, “A long time ago, while traveling with two of our Sisters, we broke the journey and stayed with a Community, where we were cordially welcomed. In the course of…
The Congregational Chapter is a go! It is scheduled to take place from November 18 through December 5, 2021, at the Motherhouse in Angers, France, if COVID subsides. Preparation for Chapter will occur online through regional Zoom calls, resource gathering and sharing now through September. The Congregational Leadership Team will monitor reports of the coronavirus…
Nuncio Brown is the new papal ambassador to the Philippines. Pope Francis assigned United States Archbishop Charles J. Brown as his ambassador to the Philippines last September. The New York native had been the Vatican’s diplomatic representative in Albania from March 2017 through September 2020. It was during his last year serving as Nuncio in…
