As the U.S. Church celebrates National Vocation Awareness Week Nov. 3–9, a prioress of a contemplative community in France remembers how it took years for the Church to recognize the religious ...

PALMYRA, Pa. (AP) — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant. But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from ...

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 ...

Consecrated men and women "reveal God's invitation to love him with one's whole life" on earth, in hope of doing so eternally ...

PALMYRA, Pa. — It was a radical idea, and for many years she had been resistant. But as Zoey Stapleton, 24, walked down a darkened hiking trail, steps behind her parents, she counted back from three ...

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 ...

Each day of the week, every Catholic elementary school across the country will join the same schedule of celebrating their Catholic identity.

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 ...

While the global Church grapples with a staggering decline in vocations, the Church in Vietnam faces a distinct challenge: ...