Sacred Heart Br. Ronald Hingle is upbeat about the future of religious vocations. Though overall numbers may not be growing by leaps and bounds, they are rising, said Hingle, who chairs the board of ...

The number of Catholics worldwide increased by 14 million in 2022, according to the Vatican’s 2022 Statistical Yearbook of the Church released earlier this month and highlighted in a report by the ...

Poland stands out as the undisputed leader in religious vocations in Europe in 2025, with 206 new ordained priests, the highest number on the continent. This recent data from the Polish Catholic ...

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 ...

Tuan Anh Nguyen's journey to religious life began with a stint as a youth minister, a proposed bargain with God and a (possibly) divine sign in a video game. Though wagering a vocation on his mad ...

Taxi driver Bartholomew Hoang Thanh Tung was deeply disappointed when his 15-year-old son gave up his studies at a pre-seminary last year. But Tung admits that equal blame rests on him and his wife, ...

Sister Marlene Weidenborner, a Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, N.Y., is seen in this undated photo. She celebrated her 65th anniversary of religious life Oct. 30, 2021, during the “Religious Jubilee ...

(RNS) — While the numbers of priests and nuns have declined in recent decades, many millennials and Gen Zers still find a calling to religious life in the Catholic Church, even if the path to ...

Bicyclists in the Archdiocese of Washington are seen in La Plata, Md., Sept. 18, 2021, during the archdiocese’s annual “Ride for Vocations.” Some participants rode 100 miles to promote vocations to ...

Hung Hoa (Fides News Agency) - The grounds of the Pastoral Center were abuzz with a joyful atmosphere as over 800 young people (aged 14 and older) from various parishes gathered for the Day of ...