From 24 to 27 November 2025, the yearly meetings of the Austrian Religious Conference ÖOK took place at the Kardinal König Haus in Vienna under the motto “Still on the way – Food for thought on the Holy Year”. Our Secretary General, Sr. Marjolein Bruinen,...
At the AGM of the Austrian Conference of Religious Orders (ÖOK) on 24 November 2025, the members of the Austrian Conference of Religious Orders elected their new Board. The new President is Prioress Sr. Franziska Madl of the Dominican Sisters of Vienna-Hacking, who...
On 20 November, the UCESM Executive Committee went to Rome to have a meeting with the new Prefect of DICLSAL, Sr. Simona Brambilla, with the purpose of introducing themselves and getting acquainted with the new team at the Dicastery. For over an hour, Fr. Janis, Sr....
In many communities, silence is an expression of humility and inner reflection, associated with sacrifice and prayer. But when suffering cannot be named and shared, some injustices remain hidden and cannot be addressed. On 10 October 2025, we met in Munich with a...
The new Conference of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in Switzerland (KOVOS) was founded in Fribourg on 15 September 2025. For the first time, it brings together both male and female institutes from across the country. This foundation...
From 10 to 12 September 2025, the 29th Renovabis Congress took place in Berlin with the theme: Human dignity: inviolable and vulnerable. Our Secretary General, Sr. Marjolein, was delighted to participate in the plenary sessions and working groups. There were...
The Conference of Major Superiors KSMR has elected a new Council for the next two years. Fr. Eric Cachia sdb, Provincial of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Malta, has been elected President of the Conference of the Religious Congregations and Institutes in Malta....
The theme of the conference was “Analysing the hidden patterns of spiritual and sexual abuse among Catholic women religious” and was organised by the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Regensburg. There were about 65 participants from all over the world, including...
Lugano, 24 June 2025 The members of the Union of Male Major Superiors of Switzerland (VOS’USM) met from 23 to 24 June 2025 at the Santa Birgitta House in Lugano for their ordinary general assembly. In addition to reports, statutory business and reflections on...
On 16 June 2025, we held an online training session on one of the issues of the moment: synodality. It was one of the topics that the National Youth and Vocational Ministry Leaders had requested at one of their assemblies: how to ‘walk together’ in our pastoral...
The Gregorian University hosted the 2025 International Safeguarding Conference. There were more than 250 participants from all continents, from Canada to Papua Nieuw-Guinea, from Australia to Ukraine, from Peru to South Africa. This occasionally caused difficulties in...
From 27 to 29 May 2025, the General Assembly of the Conference of Major Superiors in Spain took place in Madrid. The days were structured around the theme of the Holy Year “We are Pilgrims of Hope” and the Emmaus story provided the frame (how late were we to...
Thinking together about affectivity and gender in pastoral care On 19 March, the UCESM Vocations Apostolate Network (UCESM_VAN) organised a training meeting on ‘Sexuality and gender in our youth and vocational ministry’. The topic had been one of the most...
Religious vows today: between promise and renunciation From 18 to 21 May 2025, this year’s General meeting of the German Conference of Superiors of Religious Orders (DOK) took place in Vallendar. Our Secretary General, Sister Marjolein Bruinen, was there....
Some impressions by Sr. Marjolein Bruinen, Secretary General of UCESM, here !
During its last meeting on 1st February 2025, the Latvian Conference of Consecrated Life (LKDIPAK) has elected a new Council as follows:President: Fr. Andris Ševels mic; Vice-President: Sr. Ginta Mākulāne; Secretary: Sr. Diana Cērmane op.The new Council has been...
On 12-13 November 2024, the 10th Assembly of the Conference of Major Religious Superiors in Slovakia took place. Of the 73 members of the Conference, 61 superiors or their delegated representatives attended the meeting. On Wednesday 13 November, the Assembly elected a...
On the afternoon of 21st November 2024, the 4th Assembly of the UCESM Vocations Apostolate Network (UCESM_VAN) took place. 22 persons attended, including a good number of “National Referents” of vocations ministry linked to 16 Conferences of Major...
On 27 December 2024, the religious of Greece grouped together within EKME (Union of Catholic Religious of Greece) gathered in Athens at the Marist Brothers’ house for their annual meeting. 26 religious were present: 20 men – Marists, one Brother of the...
At the Manresa centre of the Jesuits in Romania, between 22-24 October 2024, the tenth common formation meeting of the two Conferences of Major Superiors of Romania was held with the topic: ‘The peripheries, God’s favourite space – a place of regeneration...
