The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:06:26 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Moncton monastery closes after nearly 125 years /item/36851-moncton-monastery-closes-after-nearly-125-years /item/36851-moncton-monastery-closes-after-nearly-125-years

For 122 years, the monks who called the Cistercian-Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Calvary in Rogersville, N.B.,  bonded over their devotion to God and a love of agriculture.

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Canada Fri, 07 Jun 2024 08:27:08 -0400
Court condemns Cardinal Marc Ouellet for 'infamous' dismissal of French nun /home/international/item/36639-court-condemns-cardinal-marc-ouellet-for-infamous-dismissal-of-french-nun /home/international/item/36639-court-condemns-cardinal-marc-ouellet-for-infamous-dismissal-of-french-nun

A civil court in Lorient in France's Brittany region has ruled that a French religious congregation, Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet -- a former high-ranking Vatican official -- and two Vatican-appointed investigators committed "serious misconduct" in expelling Sabine Baudin de la Valette, whose religious name was Sister Marie Ferréol, from her own community "without cause" after 34 years of consecrated life.

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International Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:52:52 -0400
‘I really wanted to touch poverty’ /item/36316-i-really-wanted-to-touch-poverty /item/36316-i-really-wanted-to-touch-poverty

A chance meeting with young Guatamalan boy fueled Sr. BourgetƵapp desire to serve the poor.

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afarrow@catholicregister.org (Anna Farrow) Canada Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Nuns, monks are 'beating heart' of the church, Pope Francis says /faith/homilies/item/35470-nuns-monks-are-beating-heart-of-the-church-pope-francis-says /faith/homilies/item/35470-nuns-monks-are-beating-heart-of-the-church-pope-francis-says

The prayers of nuns and monks are like "oxygen" for all members of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said.

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Reflections Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:02:30 -0400
Sister André, oldest known person in world, dies in France at age 118 /home/international/item/35163-sister-andre-oldest-known-person-in-world-dies-in-france-at-age-118 /home/international/item/35163-sister-andre-oldest-known-person-in-world-dies-in-france-at-age-118

Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and the world's oldest known person, died at age 118, a spokesman of the nursing home where she died told AFP agency on Tuesday.

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osvnews@catholicregister.org (Ƶapp News) International Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:19:37 -0500
Despair over declining numbers shows lack of faith, pope tells religious /home/international/item/34937-despair-over-declining-numbers-shows-lack-of-faith-pope-tells-religious /home/international/item/34937-despair-over-declining-numbers-shows-lack-of-faith-pope-tells-religious Aging or declining membership should prompt members of religious orders to ask, "What do we do?" but not to despair, Pope Francis said.]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Tue, 08 Nov 2022 11:02:02 -0500 Poverty, chastity, obedience give meaning /features/call-to-service/item/32851-poverty-chastity-obedience-give-meaning /features/call-to-service/item/32851-poverty-chastity-obedience-give-meaning

At 93 Sr. Norah Burns struggles to understand the lives of people who haven’t lived the last 75 years under the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. In her life the vows have been “Everything, really.”

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Call to Service Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:13:23 -0400
Call to religious life has laundry room origins /features/call-to-service/item/32165-call-to-religious-life-has-laundry-room-origins /features/call-to-service/item/32165-call-to-religious-life-has-laundry-room-origins

Marvin-Paul Fernandez offered the first clue that a vocation to religious life could be in his future back when he was a little boy growing up in Laoag City in the Philippines’ Ilocos Norte province.

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Call to Service Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:00:00 -0400
Religious order takes discernment online /item/32129-religious-order-takes-discernment-online /item/32129-religious-order-takes-discernment-online

COVID-19 has put significant roadblocks in the path of many religious communities and apostolates striving to help young Catholics discover their vocation.

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Youth Speak News Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:16:23 -0400
Five Straus sisters born to religious life /item/31670-five-straus-sisters-born-to-religious-life /item/31670-five-straus-sisters-born-to-religious-life

Lucy Straus was just a toddler when two of her older siblings left the familyƵapp Waterloo County farm to dedicate their lives to the service of God in the religious life.

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Canada Sun, 31 May 2020 09:44:57 -0400