Lee is one of around 3,000 consecrated virgins of the Catholic Church worldwide. The rite, which dates to the early years of Christianity, centers on a symbolic moment when the virgin prostrates ...

Consecrated life refers to any person formally committed for the sake of Christ to the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience, lived out in a life of celibacy.

Consecrated virgins commit themselves to lifelong celibacy, modest dress and apostolic activity. There are only about 3,000 such women on earth.

A consecrated virgin is not the same as a nun. Hayes will still live her life as a lay person. 38-year-old Hayes is a high school theology teacher.

Consecrated virgins are unmarried women who pledge to remain celibate for their entire lives, eschewing romantic or sexual relationships to devote themselves exclusively to being mystical ...

A year later, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life issued the Instruction Cor Orans, which is a practical application of Vultum Dei.

IT OUGHT to surprise me — but it doesn’t — that, during the Covid-19 lockdowns, a few parish priests mailed consecrated bread from the eucharist to parishioners. No doubt the motives were pastorally ...

What I know of consecrated life, I have learned from my loveship with the ones I some times call affectionately "madwomen in black," our nuns ... and los hombres con pechos, male priests, brothers ...

ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 14, 2023 / 16:00 pm A hospital chapel in the town of Puerto Real, Spain, located in the Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta, has recently been desecrated twice, with Masses to be ...