Vocations
How Can We Solve The Vocations Crisis Without Facing This Uncomfortable Truth?
Two pieces of news really struck me this week. The first was on the 19th July, the Bishop of Plymouth, in his Pastoral Letter called on parishioners to ask young ...
Five Closures in Three Months: Society of Jesus in Spain in Decline
The Society of Jesus is undergoing a new process of reorganization in Spain marked by the decrease in the number of religious and the scarcity of vocations. In just three ...
Progressive Decline in Priestly Vocations Since 2019
The number of major seminarians worldwide fell sharply again in 2024, confirming a sustained downward trend that has intensified in recent years, according to official data from the Holy See ...
New Survey Reveals How ‘Spirit of Vatican II’ has Destroyed Religious Vocations
The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), Georgetown University’s research arm for Catholic life, has released its annual survey of women and men who professed perpetual vows in ...
Why Priests Leave
Over fifty years ago, when the majority of bishops and priests were heterosexual, the main reason priests left was to marry. The teaching that the Holy Spirit would come down ...
Fr. McTeigue: Want Priests? Stop Hating Men!
The vocations crisis is a self-imposed outcome of an attitude that downplays both the priesthood and healthy masculine virtues. If we want men to sign up to be priests, we ...
12-Year Decline in Worldwide Priestly Vocations Accelerate
The number of major seminarians worldwide fell from 108,481 in 2022 to 106,495 in 2023, according to statistics published in the new Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae (CWN coverage)—a decline of 1.83% ...
You Suffer, We Get the Credit
Several years ago, at the March for Life in Washington, some boys from a Catholic school in Kentucky were being harassed by a native American protester and by a group ...