by Sam Alzheimer How do young Catholics discover their vocations? There’s not an app for that. Often there’s not even an “aha moment.” Just as dating couples have some ups and downs then eventually decide to marry, most twenty-something seminarians will tell you that...
If you’re an active Catholic, you know we need more priests. In the U.S. and Canada, there are more than 5,200 parishes without their own pastor. What can you do? Quite a lot, actually. There are whole movements in the Church dedicated to promoting vocations....
by Sam Alzheimer If you’re a young Catholic man, perhaps priesthood has crossed your mind, but fear pushes the idea away: My friends would laugh out loud if they heard I was thinking about the priesthood! My parents would be shocked. I’m scared to death of...
by Sam Alzheimer In the United States, there are lots of “awareness days” and even “awareness months” for all sorts of causes. For Catholics, though, one in particular stands out. It’s National Vocation Awareness Week, which the U.S. bishops have moved to the first...
I was born in Louisiana but moved back to Statesboro, Georgia while I was young. My mother was Catholic and my father was a Baptist. I had two brothers and one sister. There was no Catholic school so I attended CCD and was an Altar Server in a very tiny Catholic...
The story of St. John Vianney, as told by Madame Des Garrets (Excerpted from the Vocation Lessons curriculum) This is my country. It’s flat. It rains a lot. The soil doesn’t drain very well, so you will often see puddles everywhere. The rain also makes a lot of mist...
