Tag: week
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National Vocations Week: The contemplative order that welcomes sisters with Down syndrome
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Nov 7, 2024 / 07:00 am As the U.S. Church celebrates National Vocation Awareness Week Nov. 3–9, a prioress of a contemplative community in France remembers how it took years for the Church to recognize the religious vocations of women with Down syndrome. Now, almost 40 years later, Mother Line…
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Analysis: This week at the Synod on Synodality — revolution or much ado about nothing?
By Andrea Gagliarducci Vatican City, Oct 3, 2024 / 17:45 pm Perhaps it is in the very nature of the Synod on Synodality to take steps back after having taken several steps forward. But the tone of the opening days of the synod’s final general assembly makes it apparent that, for the moment, there is…