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

Calvin College has earned a $50,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to do research on Christian vocation, in preparation for a second grant proposal which the school hopes could net it $2 million.

God invites us to participate in God’s life in all the ages and conditions in which we live, from the days of youth “even to old age and gray hairs” (Ps. 71:18). But what does vocation look like for ...

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 ...

The Spanish Bishops’ Conference recently lamented that there are families that identify as Christian but put obstacles in the way of the possible religious vocations of their children. The Bishops’ ...

There are many servants of prayer within the Christian way of life. The first servant of prayer is the Christian family. Such an affirmation is an acknowledgement of the sacredness of married life and ...

In his decades of teaching geology at Calvin University, Ralph Stearley noticed that many people assume that there is some kind of deep conflict between faith and science, an attitude that plays out ...

Members of Catholic religious congregations in South Korea have called for concerted efforts to tackle a decline in vocation and blamed secularization as a cause for the decrease in the number of ...

The Register received insights from women in four religious orders, all of whom are connected to the leadership board of the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious. Clockwise from left: Mother ...

The prelates encouraged family prayer and taking care to form children in the virtues. The bishops offered some guidelines for educating the family in the process of vocational discernment. (photo: P.