In this undated photo, Anthony Olmes, left, of the Diocese of Helena, Mont., visits with Joshua French and Dominic Wolters, of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, John Vrochta of the Diocese ...

The church in Ireland is launching a Year for Vocations as it grapples with a steep decline in seminary numbers and with aging priests. Focused on diocesan priesthood, the Year for Vocations opens ...

While Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary specifically caters to older vocations, many other seminaries have a significant portion of their seminarians made up of older vocations. Seminarians sing ...

With the vocations landscape in flux, Father Ryan Rojo shares how the Church can tap in to the ‘Leo effect,’ online traditionalism, and shifting demographics. Father Ryan Rojo, the vocations director ...

The recent opening of a minor seminary in Pakistan’s Hyderabad Catholic Diocese is expected to address a shortage of priests in the region due to a lack of youth with a deep Christian formation.

The Holy Father is expected to address the topic of vocations to the priesthood when he visits Saint Joseph’s Seminary, in the Yonkers section of New York City this evening. Its students and graduates ...

Fr. Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, has been appointed as the next executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and ...

MANILA, Philippines — As cardinals gather in the Vatican to elect a new pope — with a Filipino among the favorites — the church in Asia’s most Catholic country is grappling with a decline in those ...