
Annually, March 8-14
Celebrating Traditions, Changing the World
Catholic Sisters Week shines a light on the spirituality, mission, and community building of women religious.
Celebrating Catholic Sisters Week
We are thrilled to share an exciting initiative that places a national spotlight on the profound impact of Catholic Sisters: the #LikeaCatholicSister campaign!
This campaign brings together congregations from across the country in a unified effort to challenge outdated stereotypes and shift perceptions of religious life by showcasing the diverse, dynamic, and impactful ways Sisters serve today.
For generations, Catholic Sisters have been breaking barriers, advocating for justice, leading in education and healthcare, and fostering spiritual growth. Their presence in communities—both past and present—has been a source of strength, hope, and transformation. Through storytelling, social media engagement, and historical connections, the #LikeaCatholicSister campaign will bring these powerful stories to light, showing how Sisters continue to be forces of change in a world that deeply needs their compassion and leadership.
At a time when many find it difficult to see the light ahead, this campaign serves as a reminder that hope is alive. Ultimately, #LikeaCatholicSister aims to redefine what it means to live as a Catholic Sister—not as a relic of the past, but as a vibrant, purpose-driven calling that continues to shape communities and inspire faith.
We invite you to reflect on and celebrate the ways you, too, make a difference in your community. Just as Catholic Sisters dedicate their lives to service, advocacy, and faith, we all have the opportunity to share compassion, uphold our values, and contribute to the greater good in our own unique ways.
#LikeaCatholicSister
Thank you!
Thanks to all who joined in celebrating women religious during Catholic Sisters Week 2024…
Natalie Rossi, RSM, Interviewed by Erie News Now
Catholic Sisters Week saw Natalie Rossi, RSM, visit WICU-TV…
Boston Pilot: Catholic Sisters Week
The Boston Pilot has dedicated a special section to Catholic Sisters Week 2024…
What can change the world? Erie Benedictine reflects on peace during Catholic Sisters Week
A reflection from Linda Romey, OSB, a member of Communicators for Women Religious and former chair of the Catholic Sisters Week planning group…
Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown to mark Catholic Sisters Week
Celebrating Catholic Sisters Week in northeastern Ohio…
Catholic Sisters Week 2024 Kicks Off
Now is the time to celebrate the women who inspire this special week: Catholic Sisters…
Annual celebration of women religious begins Friday
Catholic Sisters Week, celebrating the women religious who go about their ministry quietly even as their work transforms the lives of people from every walk of life, begins Friday…
Appreciating the ministry of women religious
Celebrating Catholic Sisters Week by spotlighting the ministries of women religious in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City…
Spotlight is on religious sisters for Catholic Sisters Week 2024
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis celebrates women religious and their ministries during Catholic Sisters Week 2024…
Sisters of Benet Hill Monastery host Catholic Sisters Week food drive
The Sisters of Benet Hill Monastery are gathering food to help Colorado Springs neighbors who are experiencing food insecurity. Over 73,000 El Paso County residents need food assistance, according to Feeding America, a non-profit concerned with providing food and...
One Week Until We Celebrate Catholic Sisters Everywhere
When you think of a Catholic Sister, what image comes to mind? We see women advocating for the rights of migrants, educating the next generation, welcoming refugees, promoting peace, ministering to the homebound. During Catholic Sisters Week, March 8-14, let’s...
Catholic Sisters Week Food Drive
During Catholic Sisters Week, sisters in Northwest Ohio are working to help end hunger in the region: "The Sisters of Notre Dame and collaborating Religious invite you to participate in a food drive for the poor on Friday, March 8, from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. All...
Celebrate Sisters
WE KNOW AND LOVE THEM. NOW, LET’S CELEBRATE THEM! Every day of the year, Catholic sisters serve others as educators, lawyers, healthcare workers, human rights advocates, spiritual directors, peacekeepers. For one week in March, let’s show the women religious in...
Nuns to celebrate Catholic Sisters Week with anti-gun-violence event
Are you in the Philidelphia area? In support of Catholic Sisters Week, you are invited to join the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for Beating Guns: Hope for People Who are Weary of Violence: "This year, during Catholic Sisters Week, on Monday, March 11, the...
Daily Prayer Graphics Available
Daily prayer graphics are now available for your use during Catholic Sisters Week 2024. Download daily intercessory prayers for use during Catholic Sisters Week and daily graphics featuring each prayer for posting on websites and social media. Graphics can be...
Abundant Hope Video Series
The National Religious Vocation Conference has published 77 videos available to be shared: Your organization may wish to post videos on your social media platforms throughout Catholic Sisters Week, or…
Catholic Sisters Week Is Just Over Eight Weeks Away!
It’s time to plan your event or action for Catholic Sisters Week (if you haven’t done so already!). Need event ideas? There are plenty to be found at catholicsistersweek.org. Once your event is scheduled, be sure to post it on the events page!
Toolkit Updated for 2024
Use the updated social media/web templates to promote your Catholic Sisters Week initiative. Both customizable files and ready-to-use files for those who prefer not to customize are included. Files are also provided for participants who prefer to use Canva.
Panel: Planning & Resources for Catholic Sisters Week
Get ready for Catholic Sisters Week by joining us January 25 for Planning & Resources for Catholic Sisters Week, a Zoom panel and conversation. Invite communication and mission advancement team members, leadership liaisons, LCWR regional chairs, planning committee chairs, justice promoters, Associate directors, ministry partners, and more.
Catholic Sisters Week will have a special focus on collaboration
Starting tomorrow, Catholic Sisters Week 2023 will celebrate the “incredible legacy and the transformative work” of sisters: “Catholic Sisters Week events will be held across the United States and, thanks to the internet, around the world March 8-14 to celebrate...
Boston Pilot Special Section: Catholic Sisters Week 2023
The Boston Pilot has produced a special section dedicated to Catholic Sisters Week 2023:
Catholic nuns bring awareness with food drive to benefit Westside Cares in Colorado Springs
Catholic Sisters Week 2023 will see two Colorado Springs congregations work to "Stuff the Truck" with donations for those facing food insecurity: "The work of Catholic nuns remains weighty — and they don’t want the masses to forget what they continue to do for...
Catholic sisters celebrate bills to ban single-use plastics, launch “Refuse to Use” campaign
In a letter to the editor published this week in The New Herald News (Lincoln and Logan County, Illinois), Marcelline Koch, OP, the justice promoter for the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, celebrated the introduction in the Illinois legislature of a series of bills...
Catholic Sisters Week Intercessory Prayers and Graphics Now Available in French and Spanish
Catholic Sisters Week 2023 intercessory prayers and daily prayer graphics are now available in Spanish and French as well as English! Download daily prayers for use during Catholic Sisters Week and graphics featuring each prayer for posting on websites and social...
Called to Serve: An Overview of Women Religious in Western Kentucky
"Since the beginning of the Diocese of Owensboro [Kentucky], women religious have played a significant role in spreading the Good News and building up the Catholic Church through their ministries of prayer, sacrifice and service. In honor of Catholic Sisters Week...
Ursuline Sisters celebrate Catholic Sisters Week
The Ursuline Sisters of Louisville will celebrate Catholic Sisters Week on March 12: "The program will focus on 'Living out Laudato Si’ in Global Solidarity: Our Ursuline Charism in Action.' Sister Carol Curtis will give a presentation on the intersection of...
LCWR Region 8 Congregations Launch Campaign to “Refuse to Use” Single-use Plastic Bottles
Twenty-three congregations of Catholic sisters, congregations of LCWR Region 8, will observe Catholic Sisters Week 2022, March 8-14, with a challenge: do not consume beverages from single-use plastic bottles. The sisters of those 23 congregations invite you to join...
Daily Prayer Graphics Now Available
Daily Prayer graphics are now available for your use during Catholic Sisters Week 2023. Download daily intercessory prayers for use during Catholic Sisters Week and daily graphics featuring each prayer for posting on websites and social media. Graphics can be...
Get Your Refuse to Use Certificate of Committment
Submit your pledge to “Refuse to Use,” and receive a certificate of commitment: The congregations of Leadership Conference of Women Religious Region 8, including the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, have extended the challenge to refuse to use single-use plastic bottles during Catholic Sisters Week.
February 1 Flashback: Pope’s Prayer Intention for Sisters
A February 1 flashback as we look ahead to shining a light on the spirituality, mission, and community building of women religious during Catholic Sisters Week 2023 (March 8-14). One year ago today, Pope Francis released his prayer intention for religious sisters and...
Planning & Resources for Catholic Sisters Week
Thank you to all who joined us for the January 12 CWR Flash Conversation, Planning & Resources for Catholic Sisters Week! Each year from March 8-14, Catholic Sisters Week helps shine the spotlight on women religious and their mission and values through a wide...
Refuse to Use During Catholic Sisters Week
The congregations of LCWR Region 8 are committed to a common action to highlight LCWR’s resolution to focus on the intersection of racism, migration, and climate change. ActionDuring Catholic Sisters Week, March 8-14, 2023, we invite – challenge – our Sisters and...
Abundant Hope Video Series
The National Religious Vocation Conference’s Abundant Hope video series – comprising a total of 77 videos – is available to share during Catholic Sisters Week.
Flash Conversation: Preparing for Catholic Sisters Week
Join us January 12 for a “Flash Conversation” that will ensure you are prepared for Catholic Sisters Week 2023!
2022 Catholic Sisters Week – Public Service Announcement
With the theme, Caring for Earth, Caring for You, Erie (Pennsylvania) Catholic sisters have launched a Catholic Sisters Week social, broadcast, and print media campaign to heighten the awareness and importance of caring for our planet Earth, including a public service...
2022 Catholic Sisters Week with Deb Seng
The "Caring for Earth, Caring for You" Catholic Sisters Week media campaign launched by the Catholic sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, includes video testimonials in which local leaders share information about important environmental topics. Among those videos is this...
Caring for Earth, caring for you, Catholic Sisters Week in Erie
With the theme, Caring for Earth, Caring for You, Erie (Pennsylvania) Catholic sisters have launched a Catholic Sisters Week social, broadcast, and print media campaign to heighten the awareness and importance of caring for our planet Earth, including a GoErie.com...
Catholic Sisters Week will celebrate work women religious do today
The 9th annual Catholic Sisters Week will celebrate work women religious do today: "The engagement Catholic Sisters Week offers this year is especially important after two years of pandemic restrictions." Read the full story at Global Sister Report. ...
Catholic Sisters Week 2022 Preparation Underway
For one week, March 8-14, Catholic Sisters Week helps shine the spotlight on women religious and their mission and values through a wide range of campaigns and events. CWR Marketing Committee Chair Stacy Spitler has shared a video update looking ahead to Catholic...
Pope’s prayer intention for sisters
Pope Francis asks us to pray for sisters and consecrated laywomen as they continue in their mission with courage:
Caring for Earth, Caring for You
If your congregation or organization is already invested in care of Earth and/or the Laudato Sí Action Platform, highlight your work in a special way during Catholic Sisters Week, March 8-14, by using the dedicated "Caring for Earth, Caring for You" social media...
Sisters carried on amid challenges and danger in 2021
Sisters worldwide worked to answer the challenges facing us throughout 2021, including the ongoing pandemic as well as climate change and migration crises. Global Sisters Report chronicled these efforts over the last 12 months: "Few years have felt as connected to the...
Thank you to the sisters
Msgr. Dennis Metzger, Diocese of Toledo, offers his gratitude for religious sisters. He speaks from Queen of Peace Chapel, Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania, Ohio
Testimony for Catholic Sisters Week
Tina Tamburro speaks of her long association with the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland where she is now on their Advisory Board
Give thanks for generosity, dedication and witness
Bishop Lawrence Persico, Diocese of Erie, PA, offers this message for Catholic Sisters Week.
Benedictine Sisters celebrate National Catholic Sisters Week by focusing on food insecurity worsened by pandemic
The Benedictine Sisters of Delaware are joining communities of religious women across the country to put a spotlight on food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Catholic Sisters Week
Gary Loncki, CWR member and Communicator for the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas talks about Catholic Sisters Week.
Nuns & Nones
Katie Gordon, Nuns & Nones National Organizer, shares why Sisters’ stories are transforming.
Heroes: Women Religious
Fr. James Martin, SJ, talks about his heroes, women religious.
A message from Sister Jean
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM, is a chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men’s basketball team of Loyola University Chicago. She invites us to celebrate Catholic Sisters Week.
Changing the World by Feeding the Homeless
The Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, MN, have been supplying meals two times a week to the homeless population who are currently residing at the Rodeway Inn in St. Joseph. They are changing the world. Mark Catholic Sisters Week 2021 by changing the world, too. Click image to read more.
Congregations plan to honor churchwomen slain in El Salvador 40 years ago
Forty years after their brutal murders on Dec. 2, 1980, the lives and tragic deaths of four American churchwomen murdered in El Salvador will be commemorated in a number of prayer services, vigils, and online events.
A Conversation with Sisters of Selma
Global Sisters Report invites you to join Witness & Grace: A Conversation with Sisters of Selma with professor emerita Carol Coburn, who conducted our Q&A series, Mercy Sr. Patricia McCann and Therese Stawowy, who was a Sister of Loretto when she marched in Selma.
Roses in December 40th Anniversary Celebration
LCWR and SHARE Foundation invite individuals, sister parishes, educational institutions, faith communities, women religious to celebrate the gift of these four women and remember all of those who dedicated their lives to working for justice in El Salvador and throughout the world. The anniversary is an opportunity to offer their story to a new generation hungry for a share of their love, selflessness and courage.
Six months and counting
Catholic Sisters Week is only six months away and it’s time to start thinking about how we’ll mark March 8-14, 2021, by Celebrating Traditions, Changing the World.
Resources for Catholic Sisters Week and beyond
Resources from National Sisters Project, Global Sisters Report, and Notre Dame Virtual School

