New Orleans Saints Owner Tom Benson Catholic Generosity Continues- 7 Million To Seminary

The financial generosity of Tom Benson and his wife that own the New Orleans Saints Football team and the New Orleans Hornets ( note they ch...

Rural Diocese of Wichita Kansas - Land of 46 Seminarians & Tuition Free Catholic Schools

I have highlighted the Diocese of Witchita before buts it is always good to highlight  it again  !! I realized that in some Dioceses this mo...

Former Baptist Now Jesuit In Training Heads Black Catholic Seminarians Group

National Catholic Reporter has a short but informative piece on the new Lorenzo Herman, a Jesuit scholastic,  who is the president of the Na...

No Sexual Relations For Soon To Be Married Catholic Priest and Wife

Interesting story out of New York. Canon Lawyer Edward Peters has the link and makes some comments about some misconceptions related to this...

University of Louisiana Lafayette & FOCUS Keeps Producing Catholic Vocations

Those include two women that are have accepted into the postulancy with the Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows   , A young man that has just ta...

Putting the Catholic Vocation Shortage In Its Proper Place - The United Methodist

I am a lot more optimistic about the fate of United States Methoidists than Mr Rankin but something in his piece The United Methodist Church...

At Christmas Diocese of Little Rock Buries A Very Young Seminarian - Bishop Taylor's Homily ( Full Text )

I have had in my heart the Catholics and others that  knew Daniel Phillips  just 30 minutes north of me in the Diocese of Little Rock and by...

2012 Ends a Good Catholic Vocations Year for University of Louisiana Lafayette ( ULL )

Nice end of the year news coming out the Catholic Student Center and Campus Church of the University of Louisiana Lafayette. See 2012 Vocat...

Tragic Day For Diocese of Little Rock and Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas - Catholic Seminarian John "Daniel" Phillips Killed In Auto Accident

How horribily sad for his parents, friends and classmates. He was just 18. See Seminarian killed; dreamed of being 'Father Daniel' ...

From Movies To Baptist Boyfriends- Young Louisiana Cajun Woman Talks Vocation of Being A Nun ( VID )

This is just a wonderful engaging delightful short video by a  young Louisiana Cajun born woman and her vocation as a nun. As she points out...

Why Do Vocation Busting Vietnamese Avoid Becoming Catholic Deacons

The Archdiocese of New Orleans thanks to the late Archbishop Hannan was one of the first places to implement a very aggressive Catholic Deac...

Yahoo Sports On How Man Is Giving Up A Baseball Career To Be A Priest Monk

Jeff Passan at Yahoo Sports has a very good and detailed story on this young man at  From prospect to priest: Grant Desme leaves the A's...

Louisiana 's St Joseph Seminary Suffers Significant Damage In Dorm Fire ( Archdiocese of New Orleans )

St Joseph Seminary in Louisiana suffered some significant damage after a dorm fire. See from NOLA.com St. Joseph Abbey fire badly damages do...

Red Mass- Bishop Malone Of Buffalo On the Vocation of The Christian Lawyer, Judge or Politician

It's Red Mass season and I wanted to highlight Bishop Richard J. Malone remarks at the Red Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo NY. T...

Dateline : Diocese of Lafayette Louisiana - 20 Parishes of 121 Account For All Seminarians

Thisis some food for thought and shows that perhaps the Vocation Crisis is self inflicted to a great degree. Are we doing our part? What doe...

The Bishop of Madison Wisconsin Private Prayer Answered - From 6 Seminarians to 32 Studying for Priesthood

Good vocation news from the Diocese of Madison Wisconsin!! They now have 32 men is some stage of seminary. When appointed the fourth Bishop ...

A Look At The Nation's First Catholic Discernment House for Women Vocations in New Orleans

An update on the new exciting in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. This seems to be a first that New Orleans is leading the way on. The Cathol...

Front Page of New Orleans Paper Highlights Innovative House of Discernment For Possible Future Nuns

The front page had nice coverage of a big event in the life of the Church and in particular New Orleans. This appears to be a first in that ...