Two years ago the pastoral and school staff at St. Mary Help of Christians Church in Aiken, S.C., asked: What are we doing as a parish to promote vocation awareness? Father Jeffrey Kirby, a young ...

Rhonda Gruenewald, pictured in an undated photo, is the founder of Vocation Ministry, a program that offers workshops, a website and other resources to help Catholic parishes, families and individuals ...

[Editor’s Note: Rhonda Gruenewald, a full-time wife and mother, converted to Catholicism in 1999. Prior to volunteering in the field of vocations, she graduated from the University of Texas in Austin ...

Amid the Church’s tumults, St. Mary’s parish in Hudson, Ohio, has a culture of vocations, drawing good men to serve Jesus Christ and his Church through the priesthood. The ‘St. Mary’s Seven’ are a ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X FRACKVILLE – Catholic Masses this past weekend celebrated World Day of Prayer for Vocations, with St. Joseph the ...

St. Canice’s Catholic Parish in Kilkenny will host this year’s Vocations Sunday Televised Mass, broadcast live at 11am on ...

"There are a lot of factors that contribute to the decline in priestly and religious vocations, but one part of that is a change in our notion of holiness," said Tim Taylor, Diocesan Director of ...

WASHINGTON-- New revelations of clergy sex abuse and the Vatican apostolic visitation of U.S. communities of women religious have not discouraged Catholics from considering a religious vocation, with ...

Martin Buber wrote once: "All journeys have a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware." If that's true, then think about this one. Catholic Church Reform International, an umbrella ...

Op-Ed author Nicholas O’Connell apparently has a bone to pick with Archbishop Paul Etienne “Parish consolidation is a failure of Seattle Archdiocese’s leadership” [Nov. 9, Opinion], claiming that he ...

While the global Church grapples with a staggering decline in vocations, the Church in Vietnam faces a distinct challenge: how to transform an abundance of clergy into true missionaries rather than ...