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Complete Info Packet on Consecrated Virginity

Judith Stegman, consecrated virgin of the Diocese of Lansing and president of the United States Association of Consecrated Virgins, appeared as the featured guest on EWTN's Life on the Rock, on August 13, 2009 at 8:00 pm EST. This live, call-in show was geared to youth, and delved into the ancient and newly-restored vocation of consecrated virginity lived in the world. The program included excerpts from the video, Consecrated Virgins in Today's Church.

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Recent Interview with Archbishop Burke

En route from Washington to the Eternal City, Archbishop Burke took some questions from National Review Online, expanding on some of the themes of his speech Friday, and addressing a new one or two.

KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: You’ve been very supportive of “consecrated virgins.” Is this concept important in the church? Does American society — one you say is in “crisis” — need it?

ARCHBISHOP BURKE: The consecrated virgins give a strong witness to the purity and selflessness with which we all should love one another, especially our brothers and sisters who are in most need. The consecrated virgin offers her virginity to Christ for consecration, so that she may give public witness to the love of Christ for all, without boundary and to the end. A society which is growing increasingly secularized needs desperately the life and witness of consecrated virgins who call all their brothers and sisters to love as Christ loves, that is, for the lasting good of all.

See full article at National Review Online