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 ...

The small Midwestern diocese of Wichita, Kansas, continues to lead the nation in many metrics related to priestly vocations, according to a new report from Vocation Ministry, a Texas nonprofit that ...

What is a vocation, and how do we find ours? A vocation, as David Brooks suggests, is an irrational factor wherein you hear ...

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 ...

A new study cites trusted relationships with parish priests as a deciding factor in cultivating vocations and reducing the priest-to-parishioner ratio as essential for making such encounters possible.

[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 ...

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 ...

5 pieces of advice I could have used when I started. I was always afraid it would happen. I would need to get a job. Not just any job, a “real” job. Something with actual hours and well-defined ...

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), ...