All over the province of Cebu this week, seminarians are in different parishes to explain what vocation is all about. More particularly, they try to persuade th ...

I find comfort in the routines in life, especially when so much of life seems so uncertain and capricious. For almost a decade, I went running along the same route each day and encountered many of the ...

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 ...

“Knock, knock, knockity-knock! / ‘It’s eight o’clock,’ the Sister said. / ‘Who can it be that comes to see / The convent all abed?’” A young girl crosses the threshold, taking her first steps in ...

(RNS) — While the numbers of priests and nuns have declined in recent decades, many millennials and Gen Zers still find a calling to religious life in the Catholic Church, even if the path to ...

The life of a religious brother unfolds silently in a world driven by countless demands—hidden in prayer, community, and ...

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

When they couldn’t find vocation stories for children, Father Jeffrey Kirby and Marguerite Wertz decided to write their own. In 2010, they published Becoming Father Bob for boys, which quickly became ...

The life of a religious brother unfolds silently in a world driven by countless demands—hidden in prayer, community, and ...