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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- James Davidson, a Catholic sociologist of religion from Purdue University in Indiana, believes it's inaccurate to interpret the shrinking number of priests and a decrease in the ...

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 ...

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Madam, - Brenda Drumm, project manager of the Year of Vocation, justifiably takes me to task (October 13th) over my letter of… Madam, - Brenda Drumm, project manager of the Year of Vocation, ...

David Quinn Religious Affairs Correspondent THE Church of Ireland is continuing to attract far more vocations in proportion to its size than the Catholic Church, figures obtained by the Irish ...

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 ...

After three years of decline, a sharp increase in requests for admission to the seminaries. The St. Peter Canisius in Mertoyudan, run by Jesuits, is celebrating the 100 year with a record number of ...

The Catholic Church in Ireland is in denial about vocations to the priesthood, says Fr Brendan Hoban, a founder member of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP). “Ireland’s priests will have almost ...