False securities can mislead religious life, but they also invite a return to what truly sustains a vocation. The endurance ...

Text of Cardinal Frank Leo’s Message for the World Day of Consecrated Life on Feb. 2, 2026 ...

Pope Francis on Thursday addressed a message to participants in a conference on consecrated religious life currently taking place in Brazil. In his message, he expressed his gratitude for “the immense ...

By Gina Christian, OSV News Consecrated men and women "reveal God's invitation to love him with one's whole life" on earth, in hope of doing so eternally in heaven, said Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks, ...

Nicole Bettini, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ delegate for consecrated life, said that as she has walked with people discerning their vocations, she feels as though she has “a front row ...

Cuba is facing a shortage of religious vocations to the point that the country is losing almost one women’s religious congregation each year. Even so, the presence of consecrated men and women remains ...

A letter by the heads of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life stresses how ...

The document, titled "Be Born Again," is a guide to help the leading organization representing religious life in Latin ...

Every society has had groups of men and women who have pursued a community life at variance with that of mainstream society, and thus paradoxically transforming their societies for the better. They ...

The challenge of addressing abuse within consecrated life — in all its dimensions: sexual, power, conscience, and also economic — was the focus of an international meeting organized by the Pontifical ...