Host a holy hour for vocations. Develop parish/school level committees focused on the work of promoting vocation awareness. A ...

The Benedictine monks of St. Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad, Ind., pray vespers together March 8, 2021. The monastery has been in lockdown for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Credit: Katie ...

Eugene Peterson laments in For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts (Baker Books, 2010) that he has been “trying for fifty years now to be a pastor in a culture that doesn’t know ...

[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 ...

When it comes to promoting vocations in the Church, Pope Francis said it all begins with an encounter with God – and that pastoral ministry in the area should focus on listening to youth and being ...

Recovering an understanding of friendship as a vocation could be a way for the Church to help ease spiritual problems of isolation, especially for those who are gay, said one Catholic author who is ...

The center of the Eucharistic revival, the three-year initiative of the Church in the United States, is obviously and appropriately the Eucharistic Jesus — the root, center, source and summit of the ...

In a casual conversation I had just after arriving in Berkeley in 1976, barely two months after defending my dissertation in Rome, one of my new colleagues at J.S.T.B. (as it was then called), ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said on Friday that he instituted the new ministry of catechist with the hope that it would help to “awaken this vocation.” Addressing participants in a meeting organized ...