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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The number of Catholics worldwide increased by 14 million in 2022, according to the Vatican’s 2022 Statistical Yearbook of the Church released earlier this month and highlighted in a report by the ...

On Good Shepherd Sunday, Archbishop Richard Moth calls on the faithful of the Diocese of Westminster to pray urgently for vocations to the priesthood, giving thanks for those already serving and ...

About 190 men and women religious professed perpetual vows in 2014. This class of 2014 includes respondents to an annual survey conducted for the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life ...

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 ...

St Canice’s Catholic Parish, Kilkenny will see Mass celebrated by Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, Chair of the Bishops' Council ...

John Weafer, first lay director of the Irish bishops’ Council for Research and Development, weaves narrative threads of three generations of diocesan priests, ordained in the 1950s and 60’s, the 70s ...

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 ...

Retired Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wang of San Francisco, right, and Vincentian Father Joseph Lin of St. Agatha Parish in Brooklyn, N.Y., elevate the Eucharist during Mass at the U.S. Catholic China ...