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

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 ...

Consecrated men and women "reveal God's invitation to love him with one's whole life" on earth, in hope of doing so eternally ...

False securities can mislead religious life, but they also invite a return to what truly sustains a vocation. The endurance ...

John Flanagan, executive director of the Labouré Society, noted that canon law requires those entering religious life to be free from debts that they are unable to pay. Bishop Jacques Fabre-Jeune ...

As the U.S. Church celebrates National Vocation Awareness Week Nov. 3–9, a prioress of a contemplative community in France remembers how it took years for the Church to recognize the religious ...

For young adults who want to join certain religious orders, paying off debt before taking a vow of poverty can prove challenging. But their communities are willing to help. Jake Smith, at St.

Tuan Anh Nguyen's journey to religious life began with a stint as a youth minister, a proposed bargain with God and a (possibly) divine sign in a video game. Though wagering a vocation on his mad ...

Palmyra, Pa. — 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 three ...

4 religious sisters with local ties share in their own words how the friar inspired their own vocations enough for them to adopt his name as their own. Sister Solanus Casey Danda, SOLT, second from ...