General Websites
- Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States (30 January 2009-)
- Association of Contemplative Sisters (ACS)
- Busted Halo: Paulist magazine for spiritual seekers in their 20s and 30s
- Catholic Nuns Today (Catholic women religious based in Texas)
- Christian Brothers Services, IL
- Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM)
- Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR)
- Giving Voice (the voices of younger women religious; Fertile Fields)
- Hermitary: resources and reflections on hermits and solitude
- Institute on Religious Life (IRL)
- The Labouré Society (help for re-paying loans to enter religious life)
- Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)
- National Communicators Network for Women Religious (NCNWR)
- National Religious Retirement Office (USCCB)
- North American Conference of Associates and Religious
- "Post Nominal Initials for Religious Congregations of Men in the US" (New)
- Praesidium (balance risk management with the sanctity of mission)
- Religious Brothers Conference (formerly NARB)
- Religious Formation Conference (Washington, DC)
- The Resource Center for Religious Institutes, Silver Spring, MD (LRCR and NATRI merged 2009)
- Review for Religious Digital Archive (St. Louis University Libraries)
- Sangre de Cristo Center (renewal for religious; FSC Brothers, NM)
- Secular Institutes, U.S. Conference of (USCSI)
- SisterBloggers (netring list)
- Sisters Online (several socially engaged USA communities)
- Union of Superiors General (USG; Rome)
- USCCB. Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life, and Vocations.
- World Day of Consecrated Life (USCCB)
Directories
- Abbayes & monasteres / Abbeys & monasteries (Ad Lumen)
- American Benedictine Formation Conference (for women interested in Benedictine life)
- Anglican Benedictines (www.OSB.org)
- Benedictine Communities of Men and Women. Geographic Index
- Benediktiner & Benediktinerinnen in Bayern (Ettal Abbey)
- Belgium and Flanders. Kerknet
- "Blogs by Catholic Nuns" (A Nun's Life Ministry)
- Deo est Gloria (comprehensive directory of RC Communities; Meredith, NH)
- Directorio Católico (esglesias.org; Category 4531 = orders)
- Benediktiner & Benediktinerinnen in Bayern (Ettal Abbey)
- Kloosters in Nederland en Vlaanderen
- Monastic Ireland
- Monniken en monialen in NL & VL
- Orden (Leviatan, Switzerland)
- Orden, Kongregationen, Stifte, Klöster und Säkularinstitute (comprehensive!)
- Ordensgemeinschaften in Deutschland * Nachrichten/Aktuelles
- Orden und Säkularinstitute in der Schweiz
- Ordenes, congregaciones, institutos religiosos ... (esglesia.org)
- Orders (Dominion Web with thumbshots)
- Orders (Open Directory Project)
- Orders (opuslibani)
- Ordini e Istituti Religiosi (Francesco Diani)
- Ordres et congregations (CathOliens francophone)
- Orthodox Monasteries in the US
- OSB Atlas (international Benedictine database)
- Peace Communication Network: Orders, Congregations, Institutes, Associations and other Religious Groups (primarily Italian congregations; pcn.net)
- Religieux / Religious (Ad Lumen)
- Religious Vocations (catholic.org)
- Religious Congregations and Orders (Dewey Decimal 255; Living Web Library, © 1999 William H. Lawson, Jr.)
- Religious Ministries, An Online Guide to (Catholic News Publishing)
- Religious Orders (CatholicIreland.net)
- Religious Orders (Catholic Online)
- Religious Orders (Rosmini)
- Religious Orders (Theology Library)
- Religious Orders: K. Georgedes, ed. (ORB: medieval studies)
- Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition
Discernment and Vocations
- Being a Monk (Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, MN)
- Consecrated Life (discernment, discussion, directory)
- National Religious Vocation Conference (for Vocations Ministers)
- A Nun's Life Ministry (helps people discover and grow in their vocation; that is, their life’s calling)
- Vision (Catholic Vocation Guide)
- Vocaciones (esglesia.org)
- Vocations Online (Fr. John Regan, Joliet, IL)
- Vocations Placement: a Religious Careers Placement Service
Documents
- Bibliotheca Vitae Consecratae (Intratext documents on monasticism & religious life)
- Code of Canon Law. Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Book II, Part III (Canons 703-755) - Conference of American Benedictine Prioresses. Upon This Tradition
- "The Identity and Purpose of Religious Life" by Brother Sean Sammon, SM
- John Paul II. "On Male Religious without Holy Orders" (22 February 1995)
- Missions. Consortium of Congregations. Service of Documentation and Studies (SEDOS)
- Monastics: Life and Law -- Reflections of a Benedictine Canonist (ABA, 1998; Dan Ward OSB)
- Review for Religious (St. Louis Jesuits)
- Rule of Saint Benedict (Benedictines, Cistercians, Trappists)
- Vatican. Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
- Starting Again From Christ (Intratext version, 2002)
Individual Congregations (a selective, non-comprehensive list)
Orders that include Men or Women:
- Benedict, The Order of Saint
- American Benedictine Formation Conference
- Benedictine Congregations in North America
- Benedictine Retreat Centers
- Benedictines for Peace
- Benedictinos (esgelsia.org)
- Bibliotheca Benedictina (Multi-lingual Intratext Rule and Dialogues)
- Geographic Database (Search)
- Oblates of Saint Benedict (lay and clerical, men and women associates)
- Rule of Saint Benedict
- What's New
- Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St. Francis (approved lay association)
- The Carthusian Monks and the Carthusian Nuns
- The Community of Jesus (Ecumenical; Orleans, MA)
- The Community of Sant'Egidio, Rome.
- The Dominicans (OP)
- Dominican Life Magazine (USA edition)
- The Franciscan Archive (St Francis, the Franciscan and Capuchin orders, etc.)
- Franciscan Links
- Franciscans International (NGO at UN)
- Franciscan Wiki
- La Fraternité monastique de Jérusalem
- Maryknoll. Brothers, Sisters and Fathers
- Order of Malta - Knights and Dames
- Prier avec la Fraternité monastique de Jérusalem, St. Gervais, Paris
En plus des documents liturgiques, de nombreuses pri�s - The Vincentian Family Worldwide
Orders of Men
- Assumptionists
- Augustinian Friars (Villanova, PA)
- Augustinians of the Midwest
- Benedict, The Order of Saint
- American-Cassinese Congregation
- Saint John's Abbey, my monastery in Minnesota
- Swiss-American Congregation
- American-Cassinese Congregation
- Brothers of the Christian Schools (FSC/De La Salle)
- Christian Brothers DENA (my secondary and undergrad educators)
- Christian Brothers (San Francisco District)
- Brothers of the Holy Cross (CSC)
- Camaldolese Hermits of Monte Corona (Ohio)
- Camillians (servants of the sick; Order of Saint Camillus)
- Caritas Christi (secular institute)
- Carmelite Friars in Great Britain
- The Carthusian Monks
- Analecta Cartusiana Blog
- Charterhouse of the Transfiguration, Arlington, VT
- St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, UK
