Consecrated women and men — together with Catholics in general — are invited to celebrate the World Day for Consecrated Life this week. Established by St. John Paul II, the day recognizes the beauty ...

Pope Francis’ message was read at the beginning of a Mass for consecrated men and women in Rome’s St. Mary Major Basilica on Feb. 2. Pope Francis greets the crowd at his Sunday Angelus address on Jan.

Mary Del Olmo looked out onto the shore of Lake Dallas during a 2012 spiritual retreat when she was reminded of a prayer she made to God as a teenager: If she wasn’t married by the time she was 30 ...

DETROIT — Amanda Ross and Hanan Ismail lay prostrate before Christ in the Eucharist at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit and vowed themselves to the Lord as consecrated virgins.

Fort Wayne’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception today will host a ceremony not seen in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in 25 years – the dedication of a woman as a consecrated virgin. Jessica ...

Jessica Hayes, an Indiana high school teacher, married the love of her life on August 15th, in a touching albeit irregular ceremony. Contrary to what one might expect, Hayes was not marrying a ...

Whenever secularism, a godless system, seems to engulf society, Christianity proves to be the more persistent. This is what we witnessed when hundreds of religious women and men working in Uganda ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. - Coffee shop operator Eileen Belongea will become a "consecrated virgin," taking on an old Roman Catholic rite that was reinstated by Pope Paul VI in 1970. The 41-year-old woman ...

Eileen Belongea, at right, who co-owns Brewers Two Cafe with her sister Ellen Grabo, works in the kitchen in Waukesha, Wis. Eileen will enter the state of consecrated virginity in the Catholic Church.