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Vocations

Companions of the Cross bring charismatic worship, evangelization to parish ministry

November 3, 2024
By Jack Figge
OSV News
Filed Under: Evangelization, News, Vocations, World News

Community is a central tenet of the life of the Companions of the Cross, a religious community founded in 1985 in the Archdiocese of Ottawa by Father Bob Bedard.

Joy, poverty endear a beloved ‘little’ community in Kansas to others

November 2, 2024
By Tom Hoopes
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News

Little Brothers and Little Sisters of the Lamb have made a big impact on those they have encountered for different reasons.

Cardinal Rys: The church of ‘we’ saves community from ‘clerical narcissism’

October 18, 2024
By Paulina Guzik
OSV News
Filed Under: Colleges, News, Vocations, World News

Opening a new academic year at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland, Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lódz posed “the most important question in the church” today for him: “How to be a missionary synodal church?”

Radio Interview: Ask a Bishop with Bishop Adam J. Parker

October 7, 2024
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishops, Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Vocations

Listeners of Catholic Review Radio get their chance to ask Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Adam J. Parker whatever questions are on their mind in this first-ever “Ask a Bishop” episode of the program.

Synod stresses global approach to role of women, doctrinal development

October 4, 2024
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, Vocations, World News

Controversy over women’s ordination, even at the synod, detracts attention from the plight of women in the Catholic Church and society, said an Australian bishop, who is a member of the Synod of Bishops.

Diaconate is ‘surrender’ to Jesus, U.S. archbishop says at ordination Mass

October 3, 2024
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: deacons, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News

Before the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica, a symbol of the Catholic Church’s unity behind the successor of St. Peter, 15 men laid prostrate to express their humility and take vows of chastity and obedience to their bishop.

Radio Interview: Exploring ‘Story of a Soul’

September 30, 2024
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints, Vocations

Beginning Oct. 1, Ascension Press offers a 28-day podcast designed to guide listeners through a reading of “Story of a Soul,” the much-loved spiritual autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. George Matysek talks about the project with one of the hosts of the new podcast, Carmelite Father Michael-Joseph Paris of St. Thérèse.

More than 15 foreign priests could be forced to leave archdiocese after recent visa law changes

September 30, 2024
By Lisa Harlow
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News, Vocations

Unless a recent change in U.S. visa law is reversed, more than 15 priests from other countries who now serve in the Archdiocese of Baltimore may be forced to go home – uprooting their ministries and leaving parishes, schools and Catholic institutions scrambling.

Packed with punch: Clergy reflect on what goes into good preaching

September 18, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: deacons, Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

Priests and deacons throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore take a wide variety of approaches to packing punch in their homilies. Some, including Father Murphy, sprinkle pop culture references into their messages. Others place the readings into historical context or explain how doctrinal or moral teachings apply in an increasingly secularized culture.

Radio Interview: Baltimore archdiocese welcomes increasing number of seminarians

September 16, 2024
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Vocations

George Matysek talks with Father Steven Roth about the increasing number of men stepping forward to discern a call to the priesthood and the impact that more priests is having on ministries throughout the archdiocese.

Consecrated virgin ‘gives all, day and night,’ amid Russia’s war in Ukraine

September 14, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vocations, War in Ukraine, World News

A consecrated virgin in Ukraine told OSV News she is grateful for her vocation, which enables her to “give all, day and night,” to those impoverished by Russia’s decade-long war against her nation.

Distance learning expands continuing-education opportunities

September 12, 2024
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

The Center for Continuing Formation opened in 1996 at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Homeland to encourage priests, bishops, deacons and lay ecclesial ministers to grow intellectually and spiritually,

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