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 ...

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 this National Vocation Awareness Week, the Cardinal Newman Society reports that several Catholic colleges have had “notable success” in fostering vocations among their students. The Cardinal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The church in Asia's most Catholic country is grappling with a decline in those with a vocation for the priesthood Clergymen in the Philippines told AFP they believe a Filipino pope could inspire a ...