Tag: priestly vocations
‘Called by Name’ initiative aims to encourage people to reach out...
Fostering vocations is not the job of only the vocations office in the Diocese of Wilmington, or of the priests in the churches. It...
Archdioceses around the U.S. welcome largest ordination classes — 16 new...
WASHINGTON -- The crowd filling the pews and aisles of the largest Catholic church in the United States witnessed the largest ordination class in...
National Vocations Awareness Week: Asking God for an increase of vocations...
WASHINGTON -- Every year the U.S. Catholic Church dedicates a week in November to pray for and promote vocations to the priesthood, the diaconate...
WATCH: Additional year of seminarian formation focuses on advancement readiness —...
By Father Norman Carroll
Vocations director
Following the 2016 Vatican document: Ratio Fundamentalis Institutiones Sacerdotalis and the formulation of the sixth edition of the Program for...
Dwindling Catholic population, call to vocations spell trouble for parishes —...
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Noticing that some of his listeners were having trouble understanding his accented English, the African priest paused his homily, grinned at...
Calling came early — James Gebhart thought about priesthood as a...
WILMINGTON — James Gebhart started thinking of joining the priesthood as a child at St. Catherine of Siena School in Prices Corner, although that...
Q&A with Bishop Koenig: Shaping his faith, getting back from pandemic,...
Several weeks before his episcopal ordination and installation as the 10th bishop of the Diocese of Wilmington, Bishop William E. Koenig took part in...
Rev. Mr. Michael Preston reflects on priest influencers as he prepares...
As his May 22 ordination to priesthood approached in the Diocese of Wilmington, Rev. Mr. Michael Preston was asked to give some thought to...
Reflections of Diocese of Wilmington seminarians: Video from Peter Schirmer —...
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Father Norman Carroll, Diocese...
Diocese of Wilmington Mass for Vocations includes candidacy for Michael Preston
Diocese of Wilmington seminarian Michael Preston received his candidacy June 15 at the Cathedral of St. Peter during the Mass for Vocations.
More than 100...