Women religious crafting new ministries, says U.S. religious leader

Published: 2004-12-28

ROME (CNS) -- While much emphasis is placed on the decline in numbers, religious orders today are creatively engaged in ministries for a new millennium, according to the president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Benedictine Sister Christine Vladimiroff, prioress of her community in Erie, Pa., was interviewed recently while in Rome for the first International Congress on Consecrated Life, which brought together some 800 leaders of men's and women's religious orders from around the world. In an interview with The Catholic Key, newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., Sister Vladimiroff said religious orders are exercising creativity in founding new ministries, especially with the poor in inner cities. She also said religious communities are pooling their resources and collaborating more with one another and with the diocesan church.

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