The church in Ireland is launching a Year for Vocations as it grapples with a steep decline in seminary numbers and with aging priests. Focused on diocesan priesthood, the Year for Vocations opens ...

A Nigerian theologian called for a new approach to the formation of candidates for religious life, warning that rigidity by ...

A top South Korean Church leader has hailed an association run by clergy and laypeople for making significant contributions to increasing priestly vocations in a country grappling with low birthrate ...

Evening prayer on Jan. 29 brought seminarians together with Archbishop Pérez and Archdiocesan leaders in a night of ...

The church in Asia's most Catholic country is grappling with a decline in those with a vocation for the priesthood - Copyright AFP Ted ALJIBE The church in Asia's ...

Such formation, he noted, should go beyond intellectual training and focus on missionary spirituality, inculturation, and ...

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.

Despite constant terrorist attacks suffered by Catholics in Burkina Faso from Islamic fundamentalists, vocations to the priesthood have increased in recent years, especially in dioceses located in ...

On Saturday, July 6, twin brothers George and Johnny Jallouf, friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, were ordained priests in their hometown of Aleppo, Syria. It marked the first priestly ordination ...

Interviews with Bishop Robert McManus, Bishop Ronald Gainer, Archbishop Samuel Aquila, Bishop David Konderla, Bishop Andrew Cozzens and Bishop Earl Boyea. From L to R: Bishop Robert McManus of ...