During the celebration of the Third Ordinary General Assembly, the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi elected their new General Government, responsible for guiding and accompanying the life and mission of the Society of Apostolic Life for the next six years. This election reflects the Consecrated Women’s confidence in a leadership committed to fidelity to the charism, communion within Regnum Christi, and apostolic outreach in the Church and in the world today.
The new General Government is composed as follows:
- Nancy Nohrden, General Director
- Perla Gonzalez, Vicar General
- Eugenia (Uge) Álvarez, 2nd General Councilor
- Kathleen Murphy, 3rd General Councilor
- Camila Melo, 4th General Councilor
This team, made up of the general director and four councilors, plays a key role in the mission of the Consecrated Women globally. The council’s main functions include:
- Collaborating closely with the General Director in the exercise of her duties.
- Giving their consent or expressing their opinion as established by universal and proper law.
- To perform their duties as a priority, without assuming other occupations that may impede the min fulfilling their role as a councilor.
In this way, the General Government ensures committed, responsible leadership focused on accompanying the life and mission of the Consecrated Women.
With the election of the new government, the term of service of the 2020–2026 General Government is concluded. The past government was composed of Nancy Nohrden, General Director; Councilors Elena Bartolomé, Eugenia Álvarez, África Pemán, Viviana Limón, and Jacinta Curran; and General Financial Officer Sonia Baldwin.
The Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi express their deep gratitude for the generous and dedicated work of this government over the past six years, a term marked by discernment, institutional consolidation, and the apostolic outreach of the Society, in a key period of their life and mission in service to the Church.
Perla Guadalupe González de la Fuente
Perla was born in Saltillo, Mexico, on October 9, 1980, and made her consecration in Regnum Christi on August 21, 1999. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Education and Development and a master’s degree in Family Sciences from the John Paul II Institute, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Formation of Formators from the Pontifical Gregorian University. She has carried out her apostolic mission in various areas of formation and governance. She was an assistant at the Consecrated Pre-Candidacy in Monterrey, directed ECYD in Querétaro, and director of the young women’s section in Querétaro as well. Between 2014 and 2018, she coordinated the national program for Regnum Christi Mission Corps missionaries and was director of the Lomas Anáhuac community from 2016 to 2022. From 2018 to 2024, she served as territorial councilor for the territory of Mexico and Central America. Before being elected as a general councilor today, Perla served as territorial director of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi in Mexico and Central America.
Eugenia (Uge) Álvarez Espinoza
Uge was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on August 16, 1980, and was consecrated on August 21, 1999. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Education and Development from Anáhuac University and a bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum. She has a canonical licentiate in Spiritual Theology and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Spiritual Theology and Ecclesiology at Loyola University Paris. She has complemented her formation with specialized studies in Spiritual Exercises and the Theology of Religious Life. She has served in youth and young adult ministry, spiritual accompaniment, teaching, and governance of consecrated women at the local, territorial, and general levels. She is currently a general councilor and resides at the General Dirctorate of the Consecrated Women in Rome.
Kathleen Murphy
Kathleen Murphy was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, on July 18, 1975, and has been consecrated for 32 years. After completing her formation in Rhode Island, she did her apostolic internship for three years in California. Kathleen has a Bachelor’s degree in Education and Development from the Anahuac University and a Master’s in Spiritual Accompaniment and Vocational Discernment from the University of Comillas in Spain. She spent eleven years in Atlanta, GA serving at Pinecrest Academy as a formation instructor and mentoring high school girls. Kathleen then served the Cincinnati locality from 2012-2015 as the director of the community of the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi, and as a spiritual director for the Regnum Christi women’s section and for young professionals. She spent a year in Spain 2015-16 to help with the transition and accompaniment of the Consecrated Women in the studies stage of their formation and on the international spiritual life commission for the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi. She returned to the United States in 2016 to serve for a second term as the director of the Cincinnati community. Kathleen served as a member of the Territorial Council for the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi from 2018-2020. In 2019 she was the director of the community in Chicago, and in 2020 she was named as the Territorial Director of North America.
Camila Melo
Camila was born in Brasília, Brazil, on September 6, 1979, and was consecrated in Regnum Christi on February 22, 2004. Camila is a dentist, having graduated from the University of Brasília with her degree in dentistry. She continued her formation as a Consecrated Woman in São Paulo and Curitiba, Brazil, and Greenville, Rhode Island. She has served apostolically as a formator, working with the young adults section in Rio de Janeiro. She later completed a Formation of Formators course in Rome, and worked with the formation center in Madrid. After returning to Brasília, she served as director of her community and as director of the Regnum Christi Young Adults’ section.
