A vocation to the religious life doesn't always mean giving up a career either. Sister Marie Jose is a registered nurse and works at a local hospital.

Religious vocation may be easier than lifting debt load ... “There are thousands discerning priesthood and religious life in North America. That’s the good news,” Laurent said.

The One Rose Initiative, in which Catholics were invited to offer a single rose to a young woman whom God may be calling to the religious life, is one of several new campaigns to encourage women ...

Vocations are out there. Four vowed religious women from four different communities — all of whom have been active in the National Religious Vocation Conference in recent years and who minister ...

Innovative ways of communicating are paying dividends in helping young Americans to discern religious life. Above, Franciscan Father Richard Goodin ‘going over my social media world,’ with ...

More than 3,500 new members entered men’s and women’s religious institutes from 2003-2015, according to a 2020 survey by CARA and the National Religious Vocation Conference.

The discussion of vocation is too often limited to priesthood or consecrated religious life alone - or somehow, such vocations seem to be valued more by the Church and "vocation directors ...

Sister Jane Falke celebrates 70 years as a Catholic nun in Kansas this week. She entered religious life when she was 15.

Sunday, March 23, 2025. A service of EWTN News. CNA ...

Several religious congregations and organizations are taking advantage of social media to "introduce" individuals discerning a call to a vocation and the seminary, convent or monastery that fits ...

INDEED, everyone has a vocation! The idea of a vocation is not meant only for a few who may feel that they are called to the priesthood or to a consecrated religious life.