Leopoldina Reis Simões

Leopoldina Reis Simões has a degree in Social Communication and Religious Sciences. Her first jobs were in local journalism in Portugal. Then, for more than a decade, she coordinated the communication office of the Sanctuary of Fatima, the city where she lives with her family. She currently works on various communication and information projects for different religious and civil institutions. Since October 2021, he has been a member of the Communication Commission of the Synod of Bishops 2021-2024.

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Leopoldina Reis Simões es licenciada en Comunicación Social y en Ciencias Religiosas. Sus primeros trabajos fueron en el periodismo local en Portugal. Después, durante más de una década, coordinó la oficina de comunicación del Santuario de Fátima, la ciudad donde vive con su familia. Actualmente trabaja en diversos proyectos de comunicación e información para diferentes instituciones religiosas. Desde octubre de 2021, es miembro de la Comisión de Comunicación del Sínodo de los Obispos.

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11 Poor Clare sisters sit in semi-circle outside a building.

Religious vocations connect East Timor and Portugal

On Aug. 11, the feast of St. Clare of Assisi, 11 young Timorese women made their first religious professions as Poor Clares at the Monastery of St. Clare in Monte Real, Portugal. 

The local community holds a farewell party for Sr. Maria João Prudência (center) before she leaves Benguela, Angola. (Courtesy of Our Lady of Fatima's Sisters of Reparation)

Q&A with Sr. Maria João Prudência, serving 6 years in Angola, now in Mozambique

Sr. Maria João Prudência arrived in Mozambique in December 2023 after a six-year mission in Angola. As one of Our Lady of Fatima's Sisters of Reparation, she is "always ready to go wherever my superiors send me." 

Sr. Ana da Paz Nunes (center), of the Franciscan Sisters of Divine Providence, interacts with two residents of the House of the Good Samaritan in Fátima, Portugal. One of the daily activities at the house is painting and drawing. (GSR photo/Leopoldina Reis Simões)

Joy and warmth pervade at House of the Good Samaritan in Fatimá

There is a friendliness at the House of the Good Samaritan, from the Franciscan Sisters of Divine Providence, staff and, above all, from the residents, 87 girls and women, ages 18-94, all with mental disabilities.

The Jan. 27 fire at the guesthouse of the Trappist Monastery of St. Mary Mother of the Church in Palaçoulo, Portugal, started in a fireplace and then reached various divisions. The roof needs to be repaired as a matter of urgency, given the possibility of rain. (Courtesy of Trappist Monastery of St. Mary Mother of the Church)

Fire at Trappist monastery in Portugal prompts community generosity

On the website of the Trappist Monastery of St. Mary Mother of the Church in Palaçoulo, Portugal, the nuns thank God "for protecting us and the firefighters during the fire" at the monastery's guesthouse.