With the conclusion of the Christmas season, we enter liturgically into a brief few weeks of Ordinary Time. We also began a new calendar year. This time of year, we have an opportunity to reflect on where we have been and where we want to go, particularly in terms of
Religious Worker Visa Update The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a new interim final rule aimed at easing lengthy delays for thousands of foreign religious workers and the communities they serve. Effective immediately, the rule removes the previous requirement that R-1 religious workers who have reached the five-year
CMSM to receive $250K from Catholic University $7.1M Lilly Grant The Catholic University of America’ School of Theology and Religious Studies has received a grant of over $7.1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to institute a new program that will strengthen the practical leadership skills of current and new priests,
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Advent offers us an opportunity to practice patience. It is a virtue that is becoming quite rare. Leadership often requires patience. Sometimes, it is patience in letting things develop instead of acting rashly or patiently listening to a brother in community who is hurting, in need, or telling the same
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The Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM) was honored to participate in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Plenary Assembly in Baltimore this past week, a particularly significant moment of collaboration. CMSM also met with the two conferences of women religious — the Council of Major Superiors of
What are you grateful for? It is the time of year when we focus on such things. Amid many challenges and difficulties facing the world, the nations in which we serve, the Church, and our religious communities, it might be easier to name what we are concerned about, rather than
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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
