Plans are underway at the University of Dallas to build a convent for the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia who teach at the Irving, Texas, university. Known as the Nashville Dominicans, the teaching order based in Tennessee has sisters serving across the
Franciscan University of Steubenville had partnered with Philos Project, a Christian advocacy group focusing on the Middle East, to hold a conference in October on Vatican II document Nostra Aetate. The theme of the gathering was to be “The Future of Catholic-Jewish
When students of the Greensburg, Pennsylvania, chapter of Catholic Schoolhouse don costumes for an event at St. Emma Monastery at the end of October, it’s not the typical Halloween party with superhero and fairytale outfits. “It’s wonderful for people to have a
The word “Pax,” which means peace, is over the main entrance to St. Emma Monastery in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. “People tell us that as soon as they pull into the parking lot, they feel their concerns melting away from their hearts and they
Ten Capuchin Franciscans of St. Augustine Province in Pittsburgh are missionaries in Papua New Guinea and 25 serve in Puerto Rico. In both locations, they minister to some of the poorest of the poor. In the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh where the
Julie Cleer will be a senior this fall at LaRoche University in suburban Pittsburgh, and she’ll start the semester again living with seniors. But those seniors aren’t her classmates. Instead of living in a dormitory or sharing an off campus apartment with
When the first Sisters of Nazareth embraced the legacy of their founder Victoire Larmenier, they dedicated their lives to sharing the love of God through their ministries of care and education, and their “openness to the needs of the times.” The needs
On a recent Sunday, Brother Joseph Holthaus posted a photo of a child on a trash heap. He captioned it with a prayer for “those who dig through garbage dumps in search of recyclables and food.” The prayer intention was that caring
Since the early 1900s, Carmelites in Milwaukee have been serving the community. For many years, that looked like a residential treatment center for adjudicated boys. But when that closed in 2017, the sisters turned to the community to see what other needs
Last year the Sisters of St. Basil the Great, Jesus Lover of Humanity Province in Pennsylvania shipped a cargo container to sisters in Ukraine after the Russian invasion. It was filled with medical supplies, toiletries and clothes donated by churches, community groups,