vocation Archives

Pope tells young people to ‘be brave’ and answer God’s call

Vatican, World Youth Day Panama
Nov 21, 2018

With the global World Youth Day gathering in Panama just two months away, Pope Francis has sent a special message to young people, urging them to be open and to commit themselves in service to others.

Bishops’ youth summit to deal with sex, war, porn, LGBT issues and more

Global Church, Synod of Bishops on Youth
Jun 19, 2018

Sexuality, death, corruption, drug-trafficking, porn, video-games, migration, war, friendship and disabilities are only some of the issues that bishops from all over the world are planning to discuss in a summit in Rome this October, which will focus on youth, their faith and vocation.

In light of faith: Vocational discernment and anxiety

Catholic News Service, Commentary
Dec 17, 2017

Nick Lopez has written one of a series of columns focused on and written by millennials and young adults.

Forgotten Catholics: French author speaks on single people, celibacy

Catholic News Service, Global Church
Nov 10, 2017

French journalist Claire Lesegretain is calling on the Church to do more to minister to the large number of single people. “This is the Church’s blind spot. It’s there, very present, but nobody talks about it. We don’t see them,” she explained while touring Canada in October for a series of conferences.

Priest’s love of cars helps raise funds for vocations in poorest diocese

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 13, 2017

How to get the engine running for vocations? A priest who loves rebuilding hot rods might have the answer. Father Matthew Keller is donating a 1969 Pontiac Firebird Convertible that he refurbished for a raffle in support of vocations for the Diocese of Gallup in New Mexico.

Pope in Genoa challenges the ‘worldliness’ of Catholic life

Global Church, Vatican
May 27, 2017

In a busy morning, Pope Francis said that the Church is interested in the “dignity of work” because even Jesus was a worker, acknowledged the role religious people have had in the drop in vocations by leading a worldly life, and challenged the young people of Genoa to question whatever the surrounding culture presents as normal, including the fact that the Mediterranean Sea has become a cemetery.