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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Members of Catholic religious congregations in South Korea have called for concerted efforts to tackle a decline in vocation and blamed secularization as a cause for the decrease in the number of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

One of the largest congregations of women religious in the United States has seen a recent increase in vocations. While there's no clear reasoning or data behind the trend, sisters in these two ...

A new study on student debt by a major Catholic research group, released today, sheds light on the challenges debt poses to prospective Catholic priests and religious as well as to U.S. dioceses and ...

Sister Marlene Weidenborner, a Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, N.Y., is seen in this undated photo. She celebrated her 65th anniversary of religious life Oct. 30, 2021, during the “Religious Jubilee ...

Once a mission territory itself, with a church dependent on European clergy and religious, Brazil has become a rich source of missionary vocations, with women religious comprising the vast majority 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 ...