The Spanish Bishops’ Conference recently lamented that there are families that identify as Christian but put obstacles in the way of the possible religious vocations of their children. The Bishops’ ...

All over the province of Cebu this week, seminarians are in different parishes to explain what vocation is all about. More particularly, they try to persuade th ...

Brother Paul Bednarczyk speaks of his groundbreaking election, his work in religious life among ‘educators in the faith,’ and admiration for holy witnesses. Brother Paul Bednarczyk assumed office last ...

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 ...

Vision Vocation Guide and the VocationMatch.com web site have reported that over the past year more than 6,900 people interested in Catholic religious vocations completed online profiles and requested ...

Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. That number has remained steady in the past decade but shows little signs of increasing. Between 100 and 200 young women enter into a ...

Such formation, he noted, should go beyond intellectual training and focus on missionary spirituality, inculturation, and ...

The governance of Catholic higher education in the United States is continuing to shift as fewer and fewer of the faithful enter into religious vocations and a growing number of secular directors take ...

Bicyclists in the Archdiocese of Washington are seen in La Plata, Md., Sept. 18, 2021, during the archdiocese’s annual “Ride for Vocations.” Some participants rode 100 miles to promote vocations to ...

By Gina Christian, OSV News Consecrated men and women "reveal God's invitation to love him with one's whole life" on earth, in hope of doing so eternally in heaven, said Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks, ...

PALMYRA, Pa. (AP) — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant. But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from ...

Taxi driver Bartholomew Hoang Thanh Tung was deeply disappointed when his 15-year-old son gave up his studies at a pre-seminary last year. But Tung admits that equal blame rests on him and his wife, ...