Bishop Jose Guadalupe Martin Rabago of Leon, Mexico, revealed this week that the shortage of vocations to the priesthood means each priest on average must minister to between 13,000 and 14,000 people.

'If I were 14 years old again and if at that age I had to make a decision, I would be a priest again, I would choose the Lord as my only inheritance...' “Lord, give me the grace to be faithful to you ...

The center of the Eucharistic revival, the three-year initiative of the Church in the United States, is obviously and appropriately the Eucharistic Jesus — the root, center, source and summit of the ...

At a time when so much pressure and so many demands are placed on priests, they should find support, freedom and relief in recognizing the gifts of laypeople and collaborating wi ...

A new study cites trusted relationships with parish priests as a deciding factor in cultivating vocations and reducing the priest-to-parishioner ratio as essential for making such encounters possible.

The church in Ireland is launching a Year for Vocations as it grapples with a steep decline in seminary numbers and with aging priests. Focused on diocesan priesthood, the Year for Vocations opens ...

A top South Korean Church leader has hailed an association run by clergy and laypeople for making significant contributions to increasing priestly vocations in a country grappling with low birthrate ...

The Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire, has taken on the challenge of creating a vocation culture by encouraging the faithful to pray for all vocations and, in particular, for new vocations to the ...

The church in Asia's most Catholic country is grappling with a decline in those with a vocation for the priesthood - Copyright AFP Ted ALJIBE The church in Asia's ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, has been appointed as the next executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Clergy ...

In Rome recently a woman finished her confession and waited for her penance. “You will say six Hail Marys,” said the priest, “and knit me a sweater—long sleeves, please.” The incident points up a ...