The majority of survey respondents cited their Marian devotions as having played an important role in the discernment and living of their call to religious life.

"Mary meets us everywhere. Even in the place or in the moment that we do not find anyone, Our Lady, Mary, is there." ...

Everyone must tend his own vocation and work, he wrote. But Luther also rejected the idea of mediation in the spiritual realm and, with it, priesthood and religious life.

More millennial women are choosing the religious life In an age of social media, a higher calling is now trending; Lauren Green reports on the growing youth movement in the nun community.

If you know the woman is really sincere -- and vocation directors get a sense after a while that this person is meant for religious life -- how can we help her?” ...

Religious Orders Use Social Media to Draw Millennials to Vocations Innovative ways of communicating are paying dividends in helping young Americans to discern religious life.

Community is an essential part of religious life, after all. "I talked with the Pittsburgh Religious Vocations Council," Crook recalled.

A recent study asks whether altering consciousness with psychoactive substances can have religious value. Americans take drugs for everything else, why not to enhance spirituality?

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 ...

"If every parish is praying for vocations to the priesthood and to religious life, or doing hosting events, or doing things to foster this year of consecrated life, then you hope that yes, of ...

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 ...

(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 ...