When speaking about vocational life, the first people who come to mind are often married couples, priests or nuns. Lesser known is the vocation of consecrated virginity, although it is the oldest ...

ROME — Celebrated annually on Feb. 2nd, the World Day for Consecrated Life is intended to “help the entire Church to esteem ever more greatly the witness of those persons who have chosen to follow ...

A deacon in Diocese of Rochester describes each individual’s vocational call as “a profound invitation” to holiness from God.

The chairman of the Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Bishop Earl Boyea, has called on the faithful to pray for vocations as part ...

During National Vocations Awareness Week, the Church wants to bring special attention to and highlight those particular and special callings to serve God and the Church. Priests, deacons, and those in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, has been appointed as the next executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Clergy ...

If you can’t explain it to a 6-year-old you don’t understand it yourself,” is a quote often attributed to the physicist ...

DETROIT — Amanda Ross and Hanan Ismail lay prostrate before Christ in the Eucharist at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit and vowed themselves to the Lord as consecrated virgins.

Alongside the Year for Consecrated Life called for by Pope Francis, the Diocese of Shrewsbury, England, is observing 2015 as a year for vocations, promoting among the faithful the universal call to ...

JENNINGS — Alicia Pousson did not choose her vocation. It came as a gift from God, she said. By profession, Pousson, 34, of Iota works as a case manager for people with developmental disabilities for ...

One August morning, I walked to the front of the church in my white gown, nervous and excited. Family and friends stood in the pews of Queen of Apostles in Alexandria, Virginia. They smiled and wiped ...

One August morning, I walked to the front of the church in my white gown, nervous and excited. Family and friends stood in the pews of Queen of Apostles in Alexandria, Virginia. They smiled and wiped ...