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"I sure didn't join the community thinking about the leadership team," Presentation Sr. Vicky Larson said, adding that after 19 years of teaching she felt "a little nudge." She's now LCWR president-elect.

Eight Missionary Sisters of the Gospel, ages 79 to 98, live at Chêne de Mambré, a béguinage in Angers, France. Twenty-six residents ages 70 to 100, most of them laypeople, live there as well. 

Throughout America and the world, thousands of religious sisters are daily witnessing to the environmental care commitment urged by Francis' 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si', and its 2023 sequel, Laudate Deum. It's a congregational concern that, for many of them, often predates the pontiff's writings — but the merging of their own environmental priorities with official papal pronouncements has helpfully amplified sisterly endeavors.

GSR is looking for women religious to participate in the 2024-25 panels for The Life and La Vida. If you are interested in writing about your experiences in religious life, we would love to hear from you.

With the approval of Pope Francis, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith recognized "the abundant and widespread fruits, which are so beautiful and positive," associated with devotion to Mary, Queen of Peace, and with pilgrimages to Medjugorje.

AHLMA accompanies Latin American missionary sisters serving in the U.S., providing them with support to adapt to a new culture and society.

After fleeing to southern Vietnam in 1954, congregations of women religious dedicated themselves to serving their local communities during wartime challenges, and later worked to restore their communities in the north.

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.