Wake Up the World
Antonio Spadaro: 12 February 2019
Those religious, the pope also added, should also not be afraid of making mistakes or even committing sins. You should be real witnesses of a world doing and acting differently, the pope told some 120 leaders of male religious orders during a closed-door
Religious Life and Cultural Challenges
y Ant?nio Aparecido da Silva, fdp: 27 February 2025
There is a general consensus about the importance and the relevance of certain themes. Among some of the principal themes we could list the question of globalization, the urgency of ethics, religious pluralism and the autonomy of culture.
Unity and Diversity in Consecrated Life
Don Bosco Volunteers: 24 January 2014
The members of Secular Institutes are, by vocation and mission, the point of encounter between the initiative of God and the expectation of creation the initiative of God which they bring into the world through love and intimate union with God; the expect
The Joy of Living Celibacy for the Kingdom
Fr. John Linden and Dawn Hausmann: 27 February 2025
What are they saying about it The first response that most people give to the thought of living a celibate lifestyle voluntarily throughout ones entire life on earth is often negative. It may be something like, I would never want to do that, or what a bu
OFFICIAL TEACHING by Patricia Walter
Patricia Walter, OP: 12 February 2017
Introduction Diverse historical phenomena under the umbrella religious life or consecrated life. Study of charism and identity reveals tension between two polarities: individual consecration and charismatic communities in mission. Tensions persist and can