About the communities of CMSWR membership: About 85% of professed sisters in these communities are fully engaged in active ministry. The average age of sisters overall is 57 years old. Sisters live and/or serve in at least 137 dioceses in the USA. The map below indicates the main community houses. Data reflects responses to the 2016 CMSWR Membership Survey
The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR) is a network of over 170 major superiors, who lead 120 women’s religious communities (approx. 6,000 sisters), to be a channel of mutual support, collaboration, and dialogue on fidelity to the Church and the theology of religious life. CMSWR advances the vitality of religious life in our country by cooperating closely with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to nurture “a renewed appreciation of the deeper theological reasons for this special form of consecration,” that is religious life. For 25 years, CMSWR has provided a beacon of hope for religious life.
eflects 106 communities who responded to the 2016 CMSWR Membership Survey
National Assembly 2016, St. Louis
How Your Gift Helps Your contribution can assist us in the following ways ~
Support for educational and training programs such as: National Assembly offering mutual support and dialogue on religious life to 170 superiors of religious communities
Domus House of Studies, Rome
Formators Workshop that provides training to sisters who will serve the Church of tomorrow Esposas de Cristo, Hijas de la Iglesia summer course for the study of theology for Spanish-speaking sisters Domus House of Studies in Rome where young sisters can study in the heart of the Church
Formator’s Workshop
Vocation resources used by priests, campus and youth ministers, and young women discerning a vocation
Nurturing the lived religious life of sisters in America and beyond through online and print publications that spread the teaching of the Church on religious life
Esposas de Cristo course Your gift makes all this possible! Thank you!
Staff to support the national outreach of CMSWR
How You Can Give Cash or Check - Please make checks payable to CMSWR. Pledges - Contributions may be pledged over a 12-month period. Credit Card - (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover) Donations may be made online or by telephone. Online - Secure gifts may be made online with any major credit card or by PayPal at www.cmswr.org Stocks and Securities - Capital gains taxes can be reduced or eliminated through a gift of appreciated securities. Please visit our website cmswr.org/giving/opportunities. Planned Gifts - Making a planned gift through a will, estate plan, or another type of deferred gift such as an IRA or retirement fund, life insurance policy, or charitable trust is an opportunity to provide us with future support. It may also provide you with short and long-term tax benefits. Your Prayers - Your prayers for vocations to the religious life and for the work of sisters is always the best gift!
To send prayer requests to us, please email or call us: prayer@cmswr.org; 202-832-2575. The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All donations are tax deductible to the extent of the law.