For the 10th consecutive year, the National Catholic Broadcasting Council (NCBC) is inviting Catholics across Canada to join in its powerful week of Masses dedicated to prayers for vocations, airing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MAUMERE, Indonesia (AP) — Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest, just like his older brother, cousin and uncle. He attended St. Peter Major Seminary, a bastion ...

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 ...

A group representing over 1,000 Catholic priests in Ireland has warned that the vocations crisis has become so critical that basic sacraments such as baptisms and marriages are likely to "disappear" ...

One of the largest congregations of women religious in the United States has seen a recent increase in vocations. While there's no clear reasoning or data behind the trend, sisters in these two ...

Glance at a wall in almost any American parish and you might still see their fading pictures: groups of middle-aged women with carefully composed hair, respectable dresses, handbags and strings of ...

In the state of Idaho, Catholic priests are a precious commodity especially when the number of converts is steadily rising ...