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Meet four nuns who will dedicate their lives to God in 2026

Four women who will devote themselves entirely to God in religious life have similar stories. Prayer, the sacraments, and adoration played a key role in their decision.
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Priest Saints: St. John Mary Vianney, the Holy Curé of Ars

The Holy Curé of Ars is one of the great holy priests in the history of the Church, as demonstrated by his immense pastoral work and his reputation for holiness even during his lifetime.

Manuel Belda

3 Aug 2021
alfonso maria ligorio

Holy priests: Saint Alphonsus Liguori

The piety of St. Alphonsus Liguori is eminently Christocentric. He teaches that worship of the Incarnate Word must be the center of all Christian life.

Manuel Belda

1 Aug 2021
anthony_enitame

"I, Anthony, an immigrant, have received a grace from God to bring it to everyone."

Nigerian, a few months shy of his 30th birthday, Anthony was born into a large Protestant family and arrived in our country by boat. This September, he will begin his fifth year at the Conciliar Seminary of St. Bartholomew in Cadiz.

Maria José Atienza

31 Jul 2021
Imanol atxa

Imanol Atxalandabaso: "The Lord scored a goal in the last minute".

A long inner process led Imanol Atxalandabaso, 46 years old and with a life linked to professional soccer, to hang up his shirt and whistle and enter the Bilbao seminary.

Maria José Atienza

26 Jul 2021
jose ramon rapallo

"In the military, a priest gives a reason for the life you are willing to give."

Currently assigned to the special operations command in Alicante, Major José Ramón Rapallo discovered his priestly vocation in the midst of the daily "battle". 

Maria José Atienza

12 Jul 2021
Hasitha Menaka

Hasitha: seminarian of Buddhist father and Catholic mother

Hasitha Menaka is one of the first two Sri Lankan seminarians sent by his bishop to study in the Ecclesiastical Faculties of the University of Navarra, thanks to a CARF scholarship. A student of the last year of the Bachelor of Theology, he resides at the Bidasoa International Seminary.

Maria José Atienza

21 Jun 2021
saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort

Priest Saints: St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort

The saint of Montfort-la Cane founded in 1713 the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Company of Mary, and in 1715 the feminine Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Wisdom, dedicated to the service of the poor and to teaching.

Manuel Belda

22 May 2021
consecrated life

"Consecrated life cannot fall into a false theology of merit."

Antonio Bellella, Claretian missionary and director of the Theological Institute of Religious Life, emphasizes in this interview the need to establish a dialogue with God, the brothers and reality in order to update the charism of each Institute without distorting it.

Maria José Atienza

21 May 2021
blas-avila

A priest in a poor area of Argentina without canonists

Omnes

12 May 2021
St. Vincent de Paul

Priest Saints: St. Vincent de Paul

The French priest developed a spirituality centered on God, the Church and the poor, and in his works he deals preferentially with ascetic themes. "He was a true giant of charity and a genius of organizational capacity."

Manuel Belda

14 Apr 2021

Pope's Travels

The day I was a Swiss Guard

Papua New Guinea, second stop on Pope Francis' trip
Mongolia

“You don’t need to be rich or powerful, just have love,” says the Pope in Mongolia
Pope Francis Bahrain

Pope Francis in Marseille, plurality as a resource
Hungary Pope

Hungary: Pope Francis' next destination
Pope Congo's journey

Poverty, tensions and women: challenges ahead of the Pope's visit to Africa
Pope's trip to Congo and Sudan

The Catholic Church in Congo and South Sudan
Congo

The Pope travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. “Mbote François”, Okay, now, welcome!
Pope Francis Bahrain

Pope Francis and initiatives for dialogue with Islam
Pope Francis Bahrain

Interreligious and ecumenical dialogue, a weapon to defuse any conflict

It's happening...

Holywins: una alternativa alegre y católica a Halloween

Omnes Editorial Staff
pensamiento político san agustín

¿Cuál es el pensamiento político de san Agustín?

Santiago Leyra Curiá
Centenary of Our Lady of Fatima, 2017

Miracles of the Virgin Mary and nature: 'the sun danced', snowfalls, flowers…

Francisco Otamendi
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