Colorado Catholic Center illustrates how community fosters discernment. Fathers Shaun Galvin (lower right) and Brian Larkin (upper right), shown being ordained, say their time at the University of ...

Q: At my parish, we pray "for vocations to the priesthood and religious life." But at the other parish in town, they pray for "vocations to the priesthood, the diaconate, marriage, and religious life.

MBANJOCK, Cameroon — A year of formation has just been completed in Cameroon — 12 months marked by a great and rich harvest of vocations, with many ordinations taking place in various dioceses across ...

The pope made the comment in his annual World Day of Prayer for Vocations message, published May 5, as Catholics worldwide participate in a global consultation process leading to the 2023 Synod on ...

During the presentation on Tuesday morning of Pope John Paul’s Letter to the Priests, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy and Archbishop Csaba Ternyak ...

Tony Spence, former director and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service and a former president of the Catholic Press Association, died July 28, 2024, after long illness. He is pictured accepting the ...

Sacred Heart Br. Ronald Hingle is upbeat about the future of religious vocations. Though overall numbers may not be growing by leaps and bounds, they are rising, said Hingle, who chairs the board of ...

The Archdiocese of Cologne in Germany has launched a multilingual website to help young people discern their vocation ahead of World Youth Day (WYD) in Portugal’s capital Lisbon in August. The website ...

The church in Ireland is launching a Year for Vocations as it grapples with a steep decline in seminary numbers and with aging priests. Focused on diocesan priesthood, the Year for Vocations opens ...

ROME – Ernest Renan once famously said that forgetting is an essential factor in the creation of a nation, which makes the historian a perennial threat to nationality. He had a point: Memory is a ...

New members are being sought for the Archdiocesan Vocation Club of Greater New Orleans, which supports vocations to the priesthood and religious life in the Archdiocese of New Orleans through prayer, ...

Among Catholics, the sacrament of matrimony is in freefall. Over 50 years between 1969 and 2019, Catholic marriages declined by 69 percent even as the Catholic population increased by nearly 20 ...