Father Timothy Mulranen, parochial vicar at Saint Joseph Parish, Somers Point, center, poses for a photo with students in the ...

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 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 ...

Despite constant terrorist attacks suffered by Catholics in Burkina Faso from Islamic fundamentalists, vocations to the priesthood have increased in recent years, especially in dioceses located in ...

On Saturday, July 6, twin brothers George and Johnny Jallouf, friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, were ordained priests in their hometown of Aleppo, Syria. It marked the first priestly ordination ...

As part of the Jubilee of Seminarians, Bishops, and Priests, Pope Leo XIV met June 26 in the Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome with the “joyful priests” responsible for vocations ministry and seminary ...

The Korean Catholic Church needs to implement revised guidelines for effective priestly formation in all seminaries including establishing an emotional care system and a psychological evaluation model ...

John Flanagan, executive director of the Labouré Society, noted that canon law requires those entering religious life to be free from debts that they are unable to pay. Bishop Jacques Fabre-Jeune ...

The Catholic Church has renewed its call for a priesthood rooted in compassion and service following the ordination of two ...

Young men are simply not signing up to become priests — certainly not in the numbers that they used to. According to the Vatican’s Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, the past 12 years have seen a ...

As cardinals gather in the Vatican to elect a new pope -- with a Filipino among the favourites -- the church in Asia's most Catholic country is grappling with a decline in those with a vocation for ...

The church in Asia's most Catholic country is grappling with a decline in those with a vocation for the priesthood Clergymen in the Philippines told AFP they believe a Filipino pope could inspire a ...