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March 2012

March 22, 2012

Priest ordained early to fulfill father’s dying wish

A beautiful vocation story, courtesy the National Catholic Register: In the past several months, new...

March 21, 2012

Answering the call again, and again, and again: families with multiple vocations

Vocations shortage? What vocations shortage? Over at Our Sunday Visitor, they've got an interesting roundup...

March 17, 2012

Spain launches vocation drive among the unemployed

Details: The Roman Catholic Church is hoping that they can tempt young men to join...

March 16, 2012

Must-see video of the day: a tap-dancing seminarian

Really! Behold, the terpsichorean skills of David Rider. From the good folks at CNS, here's...

March 13, 2012

“You never know what the Lord has in store for you”: the remarkable story of a vocation 65 years in the making

How's this for a really late vocation? From Ottawa: For nearly half a century, Gérard...

March 09, 2012

Burying the last Belgian missionary in Hawaii

Scanning the Catholic press, I don't think this item got much attention. But it should...

March 09, 2012

“The Hands of Christ in a Broken World”: great new video on the priesthood

A big h/t to Jim Lackey at CNS, who just posted this gem from Salt...

March 06, 2012

“What an uplifting feeling to know that God has blessed this Church with so many priestly vocations…”

It's not every day that an American priest gets to celebrate Mass with several hundred...

March 02, 2012

56 years later, priest survivors of Andrea Doria tell their story

An ambitious undertaking by a seminarian is throwing new light on a dramatic moment of...

February 2012

February 19, 2012

Vocations surging in Great Britain

Some happy news from across the pond: A few years ago he was a roadie...

February 16, 2012

Mother Dolores Hart heads back to Hollywood

The celebrated former movie star and cloistered nun will be returning to the Oscars later this month...

February 07, 2012

“The permanent diaconate was an unexpected blessing of the Second Vatican Council”

The National Catholic Register has a good, long piece on the diaconate in its newest...

February 02, 2012

“God wanted me ordained without her being there…”

As part of her master's project at Iowa State University, Eloisa Perez-Lozano documented the immigrant...

January 2012

January 18, 2012

Meet Fr. Don, the surfer priest

This is a great video about a priest who surfs: Fr. Don Calloway. But that's...

January 18, 2012

A seminarian on preaching: “The first thing I do is pray…”

Catholic San Francisco has been following the pastoral year of seminarian Tony Vallecillo as he...

January 17, 2012

From TV producer to priest?

That's even more improbable than making the leap from TV producer to deacon. The Milwaukee...

January 15, 2012

A hermitage gets a deacon

This is something a little unusual, and worth noting: a monk ordained a deacon for...

January 08, 2012

When the person praying for a job is clergy

Here's an unusual look at an often-unreported aspect of the recession: ministers who are unemployed....

January 02, 2012

From city official to Sister of St. Joseph

This is certainly a different kind of vocation story: A former Portland City official took...

December 2011

December 30, 2011

“How beautiful, the hands that serve”: a moving ordination slideshow

A couple weeks back, I posted on the diaconal ordination of Sean Suckiel. Below is...

December 16, 2011

The Catholic priest with 9 children

Last spring, I posted an item about an Anglican priest's leap of faith -- joining...

December 15, 2011

Worth a thousand words

In 2002, when I was beginning formation for the diaconate, a young teenager by the...

December 15, 2011

Little drummer priest

A priest reader sent this my way: a video from his ordination reception last June,...

December 10, 2011

Any suggestions for a teenager thinking of the priesthood?

A woman in my parish dropped me a line today: I'd like your advice. The...

December 08, 2011

The end of an era

As is the custom in the Dioceses of Brooklyn and Rockville Centre, they ordained transitional...

December 01, 2011

Answering the call: meet a seminarian…and his wife

Here's something we don't encounter very often: a story about seminarians preparing to get married....

November 2011

November 29, 2011

Boom: seminary enrollment up around the country

And Catholic News Service has the numbers, and details: In his first months as rector...

November 27, 2011

A moveable feast: a friar puts his soup kitchen on wheels

This is a small stroke of genius: Brother Al Mascia has much to be thankful...

November 26, 2011

The changing face of America’s sisters

A paper in St. Louis looks at how sisters have changed over the last couple...

November 22, 2011

Deacon poor and deacon rich: a look at the vocation in different dioceses

A reader sent this my way: a long and comprehensive look at where deacons are...