The chairman of the Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Bishop Earl Boyea, has called on the faithful to pray for vocations as part ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Father 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 ...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of young pilgrims from all over the world converged on Rio de Janeiro to join Pope Francis for World Youth Day, but for many of these youth, the road to Rio will ...

JENNINGS — Alicia Pousson did not choose her vocation. It came as a gift from God, she said. By profession, Pousson, 34, of Iota works as a case manager for people with developmental disabilities for ...

DETROIT — Amanda Ross and Hanan Ismail lay prostrate before Christ in the Eucharist at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit and vowed themselves to the Lord as consecrated virgins.

The World Day of Prayer for Vocations will be held on May 15, Good Shepherd Sunday, to underscore Catholics’ duty to foster vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life. “We all have a ...

On the 28th World Day of Consecrated Life, Pope Francis spoke about the importance of cultivating “an intense spiritual life” that is nourished by Eucharistic adoration, intercessory prayer, and ...

What you need to know: Whenever secularism, a godless system, seems to engulf society, Christianity proves to be the more persistent. Whenever secularism, a godless system, seems to engulf society, ...