What does your communal life of prayer, fraternity, and ministry look like? How often does the leadership team reflect on it in its meetings or the community as a whole? Many other items of concern fill our meeting agendas, but experience shows that good reflection and action on the overall
Click here for Items of Note: Justice & Peace Edition from September 2025, with the latest updates on justice, peace, and integrity of creation.
This week, the Opening Session of the Young Religious Leadership Development Program for the 2025-2026 cohort took place at the St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center in Detroit, MI. National Office staff members, Fr. Frank Donio, SAC, Executive Director, Deacon Steven DeMartino, Director for Safeguarding Initiatives, and David Rohrer
The annual CMSM Safeguarding Ministry Conference next month offers our members and their safeguarding teams the opportunity to learn from experts and resource one another. Safeguarding ministry has evolved over the last two decades. There are many policies and procedures in place regarding the safeguarding of minors, especially through the
Click here for Items of Note: Justice & Peace Edition from August 2025, with the latest updates on justice, peace, and integrity of creation.
In early August, members of the CMSM Executive Committee met with Sr. Simona Brambilla, Prefect of the Dicastery for Consecrated Life, and Dr. Daniela Leggio, Head of the Office for Promotion and Formation. This meeting was a valuable opportunity for CMSM to share the realities of male religious life in
The 2025 National Assembly’s theme was “Rejoice in Hope: Solidarity and Fraternity.” This theme, inspired by the Jubilee year and the initiative of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (DICLSAL) for those in Consecrated Life to focus on reconciliation and peace, addressed a number
Our time together in Baltimore at the 2025 National Assembly was a blessed one! Our Past President, Fr. Jeffrey Kirch, CPPS, reviewed in his excellent Presidential Address our work during the days together: “Our theme this year is Rejoice in Hope: Solidarity and Fraternity. Over the next few days we
CMSM Executive Director, Fr. Frank Donio, SAC, was awarded the 2025 International Blessed Michael McGivney Medal during the 143rd Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus, which was held last week in Washington, DC. In the news release, the Knights of Columbus wrote, "As Council 9542’s chaplain, Fr. Donio has
During our National Assembly last week, we installed our new President, and new board members were elected to our board. Please join us in congratulating the newly elected: - Rt. Rev. James Herring, O. Praem., was installed as President - Very Rev. Christopher Fadok, OP, was elected Vice President -
