[Editor’s Note: Rhonda Gruenewald, a full-time wife and mother, converted to Catholicism in 1999. Prior to volunteering in the field of vocations, she graduated from the University of Texas in Austin ...
Rhonda Gruenewald, pictured in an undated photo, is the founder of Vocation Ministry, a program that offers workshops, a website and other resources to help Catholic parishes, families and individuals ...
Amid the Church’s tumults, St. Mary’s parish in Hudson, Ohio, has a culture of vocations, drawing good men to serve Jesus Christ and his Church through the priesthood. The ‘St. Mary’s Seven’ are a ...
The number of Catholics worldwide increased by 14 million in 2022, according to the Vatican’s 2022 Statistical Yearbook of the Church released earlier this month and highlighted in a report by the ...
Op-Ed author Nicholas O’Connell apparently has a bone to pick with Archbishop Paul Etienne “Parish consolidation is a failure of Seattle Archdiocese’s leadership” [Nov. 9, Opinion], claiming that he ...
According to Vatican statistics released Thursday, the Church in the Americas lags behind globally when it comes to the number of seminarians per number of Catholics. In 2015, the Americas had 53.6 ...
Jesus' baptism reminds us that he was one of us. He revealed that we humans must allow ourselves to be fragile, seeking and willing to change course when love calls for it.
Holy Name Parish in Winfield, Kansas has never produced a vocation to the priesthood and hasn’t had a vocation to the religious life in recent years. But that isn’t stopping parishioners from praying ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Father Edmund J. Faliskie, C.Ss.R is the pastor of St. Clement’s Parish in Saratoga Springs. The changes taking place in the universal Roman Catholic Church such as the ...