Who We Are
CMSM is the national organization representing leaders of Catholic religious institutes for men, monasteries, and societies of apostolic life in the United States. CMSM is both a common voice for male religious and an advocate for their individual charisms.
Latest News
CMSM launches new journal with Cardinal Czerny contribution
The first issue of the new journal about Catholic religious life, Review for Religious, launches on June 21. The inaugural issue includes an article from Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, Undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees
Laudato Si’ Action Platform Launches
The Laudato Si’ Action Platform was launched during a May 25 Vatican press conference closing Laudato Si’ Week (see the livestream). The speakers, including Pope Francis and Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson, invited the universal Church
JP Alert: May 19, 2021
Click here for the JP Alert from May 19, 2021, with the latest updates from justice, peace, and integrity of creation. The photo above is from the Trappists' Latroun Abbey in Israel.
Member Spotlight
Meet some of the diverse religious men and communities whose leaders belong to CMSM
“I was looking for something more”: A Diocesan Priest’s Journey to Religious Life
Fr. David Driesch, O.Praem’s journey to Daylesford Abbey and life as a Norbertine priest took a while. For 30 years, he was a priest for the Diocese of Pittsburgh, a city five hours west of the suburban Philadelphia, Pa., Abbey he
Meet the Comboni Missionaries
Founded in Africa in 1867 by St. Daniel Comboni, a native of Italy, the Comboni Missionaries are an international Catholic organization dedicated to ministering to the world’s poorest and most abandoned people, often working in unstable political climate, in the midst
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