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Vocations

Quo Vadis attracts biggest crowd ever, promotes camaraderie and faith

July 17, 2025
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations, Young Adult Ministry

Shouts and laughter filled a large hall at St. Mary’s Seminary in Roland Park July 9 as more than 100 teenage boys threw themselves into a high-energy group game – just one part of a week designed to inspire deeper faith and lasting friendships. The occasion was Quo Vadis, a four-day summer vocations camp for young men hosted by the seminarians of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Study: Devotion to Mary has significant impact on discerning, sustaining vocations

July 17, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Marian Devotion, News, Vocations, World News

Devotion to Mary is a significant factor in discerning and sustaining the call to priestly and religious life, according to a new study.

Loyola University Maryland graduate ordained Jesuit priest

July 13, 2025
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

Jonathan Pennacchia, a 2014 graduate of Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, was ordained a Jesuit priest June 14 at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City.

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Excitement and pride abound at ordination of five priests for Archdiocese of Baltimore

June 23, 2025
By Carole Norris Greene
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

Joy, excitement and pride permeated the air during the long-awaited priestly ordination of five men during a June 21 Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.

Need for more Catholic Army chaplains to serve military flock as great as ever, say two priests

June 20, 2025
By Kurt Jensen
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News

It’s a question often asked about Catholic chaplains serving in the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services: Are there enough of them for the estimated 250,000 Catholics — 25 percent percent of the U.S. armed forces — serving worldwide?

Deacon O’Donnell’s ‘normal’ faith life led to priestly vocation

June 20, 2025
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2025, News, Vocations

Deacon Thomas P. O’Donnell started attending daily Mass more often, going to confession and eucharistic adoration and reading more about the faith. All this led to a deepening of his life.

Deacon Alex Mwebaze is happy to call Maryland home

June 19, 2025
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2025, News, Vocations

Deacon Mwebaze, along with five other deacons, will be ordained as priests June 21 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, marking the culmination of his journey to priesthood.

For Deacon Shiadrik Mokum, the priesthood is all about community

June 18, 2025
By Gerry Jackson
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2025, News, Vocations

Deacon Shiadrik Mokum says all his life “community” has been his major focus.
The Cameroon native sees his journey to the priesthood, which he will complete with his ordination in June at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, as a natural progression of his devotion to community life.

Prodigal son to priest

June 17, 2025
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2025, News, Vocations

In the eyes of the world, Deacon James “Jamie” Lancelotta is the unlikeliest candidate for the priesthood.

Over 20,000 permanent deacons serve church, but death, retirement bring overall number down

June 16, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: deacons, Feature, News, Vocations, World News

The nation’s Catholic permanent deacons were estimated to number more than 20,000 in 2024 — but “as is the case with priests in the United States, there are not enough new permanent deacons being ordained to make up for the numbers who are retiring from active ministry and dying each year,” according to a new report.

Future priest from Congo has a heart of service

June 16, 2025
By Samantha Smith
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2025, News, Vocations

Faith has been a vibrant part of Deacon Ilanga’s 46 years of life. It all began in his childhood with his mother bringing him and his eight siblings – five sisters and three brothers – to daily and Sunday Masses as a family. With the church being a five-minute walk from home, Deacon Ilanga was also involved in ministries such as singing in the choir and being an altar server. 

Pope’s brother says even as a baby, future pontiff had a spiritual ‘air’ about him

June 13, 2025
By Simone Orendain
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News

In an interview with OSV News, Louis Prevost said that it was more than just Robert being “the baby of the family. … There was an air about him. I mean the spirit coming out of his physical body as he grew older.”

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