New book points to need for racial reckoning in women’s religious orders
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Shannen Dee Williams describes her upcoming book about Black Catholic sisters as a “labor of love.” Her book, “Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American...
View ArticleReligious brothers can be superiors of orders with priests, pope says
ROME — Granting an exception to canon law, Pope Francis said the Vatican office that deals with religious orders can permit men’s communities that are made up of both priests and brothers to choose one...
View ArticlePope adds preliminary step for creating diocesan religious orders
ROME — In a further sign that he believes more care is needed in setting up diocesan religious orders, Pope Francis issued a decree requiring bishops to obtain written permission from the Vatican to...
View ArticleHit-and-run by priest in Brazil stirs controversy within Dominican order
In Brazil, a suspect in a burglary, who was hit by a priest’s car in May, died from the consequences of the collision on July 27. Forty-one-year-old Ângelo Nogueira, a drug user, allegedly stole about...
View ArticleReligious forum calls on Church leaders to tackle injustice in India
MUMBAI, India – Religious brothers and sisters of India pledged to be “engaged with those on the periphery” during the Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace’s 17th National Convention held in...
View ArticleAs order ponders the role of women, recalling history’s lone female Jesuit
ROME – Recently Father Arthur Sosa, a Venezuelan Jesuit and the order’s Superior General since 2016, held a year-end briefing for journalists. As was predictable, conversation was dominated by the case...
View ArticleFaith-based group blasts Tanzania’s treatment of indigenous Maasai people
YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A faith-based group composed of almost 50 Catholic religious congregations has condemned what it calls the “systematic approach” of the Tanzanian government to drive members of the...
View ArticleAs synodality summit looms, navigating a papacy’s imperial phase
ROME – When Pope John Paul II marked his 25th year in office in 2003, American Catholic theologian Richard McBrien spoke for many liberal critics in opining that the pontiff’s legacy was decidedly...
View ArticleIrish bishops ‘welcome’ government inquiry in abuse at schools run by...
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Bishops in Ireland have welcomed the announcement by the Irish government of a “scoping inquiry” to shape the government’s response to revelations of historical sexual abuse...
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Redemptorists demand return of historic monastery in Vietnam
MUMBAI – A religious order in Vietnam is calling for global support in resisting what it described as the illegitimate seizure of an historic monastery by the country’s government, under the pretext of...
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