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CMSWR Chairperson Sister Regina Marie Gorman in a Papal Audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, Rome.. The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (Italian: Consiglio dei Superiori Maggiori delle Donne Religiose) (CMSWR) is one of two associations of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States (the other being the ...
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is one of two associations of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States (the other being the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious). LCWR includes over 1300 members, who are members of 302 religious congregations that include 33,431 women religious ...
The International Union of Superiors General (IUSG) is a Catholic organization representing about 600,000 sisters and nuns from 80 countries worldwide. [1] [2] Its origins date to the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, who supported its creation, later formalized after the Second Vatican Council.
The Daughters of Isabella is a spiritual, social and charitable organization that was started as a female auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus.The first circle of the Order was founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1897, as an auxiliary to the Rev. John Russell Council of the Knights of Columbus for the purpose of uniting all Catholic women in a sisterhood to achieve the following aims; to ...
Church Women United (CWU) is a national ecumenical Christian women's movement representing Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian women. Founded in 1941, as the United Council of Church Women , [ 1 ] this organization has more than 1,200 local and state units in the United States and Puerto Rico .
In Hong Kong, the Catholic Women's League was established in 1937 by two Irish women who were members of the CWL in the United Kingdom. [17] Also in 1931, the first CWL in Africa was established in Cape Town, South Africa. [18] [19] The Catholic Women's League is a member of the World Union of Catholic Women's Organizations. [18]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States.Founded in 2001 after the merger of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (USCC), the USCCB is a registered corporation based in Washington, D.C.
In 1921 the name was changed to the Catholic Daughters of America — until 1954, when it became Catholic Daughters of the Americas — and in 1925 the Knights of Columbus severed ties with the organization. Under the direction of Mary Duffy from 1923 to 1950 the group expanded vigorously, reaching 170,000 members in 1928.