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Sister Kathy Brazda, outgoing president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, speaks Aug. 13, 2025, during the LCWR assembly in Atlanta, held Aug. 12-15. A member of the Congregation of St. Jospeh, she acknowledged the shifts of religious life with aging and declining number of Catholic sisters but said that "dread is not of God" and encouraged religious to discern how Christ is calling them today. (OSV News photo/Andrew Nelson, Georgia Bulletin) (Andrew Nelson)

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As numbers decline women religious urged to discern their ’emerging future’

August 21, 2025January 21, 2026

ATLANTA OSV News– From a message that "dread is not of God" to a "pilgrimage of hope," several hundred Catholic sisters and guests gathered in downtown Atlanta for the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.During days of conversation, prayer and friendship from Aug. 12-15, the gathering of elected leaders of religious congregations…...

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