When speaking about vocational life, the first people who come to mind are often married couples, priests or nuns. Lesser known is the vocation of consecrated virginity, although it is the oldest ...

SAUGUS, Mass. — Judith Stegman, owner of a tax and accounting firm in Lansing, Mich., doesn't mince words when describing her vocation. “I'm a consecrated virgin,” she says. Even in Catholic circles, ...

Pope Francis sent a letter Monday to women living the vocation of consecrated virginity, exhorting them to be close to suffering people, and to lead them to Christ. "Be women of mercy, experts in ...

JENNINGS — Alicia Pousson did not choose her vocation. It came as a gift from God, she said. By profession, Pousson, 34, of Iota works as a case manager for people with developmental disabilities for ...

DETROIT — Amanda Ross and Hanan Ismail lay prostrate before Christ in the Eucharist at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit and vowed themselves to the Lord as consecrated virgins.

In this file photo, Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit prays over three women consecrated as virgins during a ceremony at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit. (Credit: Joel ...

DETROIT -- It was any bride's dream wedding -- a packed church, a beautiful white dress and a palpable feeling of excitement and love. But what made this recent ceremony at the Cathedral of the Most ...

The bride wore white and carried a dozen red roses. But when the ceremony ended, Alice Claire Mansfield did not toss her bouquet in the air. Instead, dressed in a long white alb, Mansfield walked with ...

When Jesus Christ asks you to be his bride, you don’t hem and haw and ask to see the ring. You say yes. That’s what 34-year-old Tara Stone did almost four years ago at St. Peter Catholic Church in ...

VATICAN CITY — Almost 50 years after the Church published the new “Rite of Consecrated Virginity,” the Vatican has issued an instruction on the state of life, its discipline and the responsibilities ...