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 ...

As a senior in high school, Olivia March ’25 knew she wanted to pursue a ministry degree—at some point. Thanks to Ministry Scholars, Bethel’s accelerated ministry degree program, it’s happening sooner ...

[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 ...

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.

When it comes to promoting vocations in the Church, Pope Francis said it all begins with an encounter with God – and that pastoral ministry in the area should focus on listening to youth and being ...

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 ...

For Stanley Murray, getting out of bed some Mondays means flopping like a rag doll to the floor and lying there until he can muster the strength to stand. The day before, he might have given a sermon ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said on Friday that he instituted the new ministry of catechist with the hope that it would help to “awaken this vocation.” Addressing participants in a meeting organized ...