10 years with Pope Francis

Josephite Sr. Jayne Helmlinger, then president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, greets Pope Francis after an audience during the 2019 LCWR visit to Rome. (Courtesy of LCWR)

Pope Francis embodies the essence of our shared vocational life

The pope's commitment to his religious vocation captures our minds and hearts. He clearly seeks a "lifelong, undistracted, single-focused God-quest," as Sr. Sandra Schneiders describes consecrated religious life.

Sr. Maria Nirmalini, the superior general of the Apostolic Carmel congregation and sisters of the Apostolic Carmel congregation, meet with Pope Francis in Bahrain in November 2022. (Vatican Media/Francesco Sforza)

Pope Francis has called us to a new way of being church

By Maria Nirmalini
Pope Francis greets Claretian Missionary Sr. Jolanta Kafka, president of the International Union of Superiors General, during a May 5 audience with participants in the plenary assembly of the union at the Vatican. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Pope Francis understands, appreciates and trusts women religious

By Bridgita Samba Mwawasi, Rosalia Sakayombo
Nadia Coppa shakes hands with Pope Francis.

The pope understands the church is feminine

By Nadia Coppa