Vocation Articles
Best Response to Priestly Scandals: Pray for Faithful Priests - Like Fr. Paul Schenck
By • Catholic Online • 7/14/2011
We need to hear the good news! There are priests who are faithfully serving the Church and her mission. Priests like Fr. Paul Chaim Schenck. They are humble, properly submitted to the authority of the Church and bearing tremendous fruit. CHESAPEAKE, VA. (Catholic Online) - ...
I Shall Call You Friends: Pope Benedict XVI Reflects On His Sixty Years of Priesthood
By • Catholic Online • 7/1/2011
Sixty years on from the day of my priestly ordination, I hear once again deep within me these words of Jesus that were addressed to us new priests at the end of the ordination ceremony. I knew the Lord himself was speaking to me in a very personal way. He calls me his friend. VATICAN CITY ...
Boston: Canonization Cause Opened for Opus Dei Priest, Father Joseph Muzquiz
By • Zenit News Agency • 6/9/2011
The Archdiocese of Boston has opened the cause for canonization of Father Joseph Muzquiz, a priest of Opus Dei who established the personal prelature in the United States and worked for many years in the greater Boston area. BRAINTREE, MA. (Zenit.org)- The Archdiocese of Boston has opened the ...
54 Priests for UK Ordinariate, Episcopal Parish to Enter US Catholic Church
By • Catholic Online • 6/8/2011
Until the US Ordinariate is erected, which should be soon, St. Luke's will be under the care of the Archdiocese of Washington. We have covered the emergence of the Ordinariate for groups of Anglicans seeking to come into the full communion of the Catholic Church from its inception. We will ...
Ecclesial Movements: The Catholic Charismatic Renewal
By • Catholic Online • 6/5/2011
God sovereignly drew many Duquesne University students into the chapel at The Ark and Dove Retreat Center. Some were laughing, others crying. Some prayed in tongues, others (like me) felt a burning sensation coursing through their hands. God had planned it in the Upper Room Chapel. It was the birth ...
Opus Dei Prelate Ordains 35 New Priests: 'Center Life Around Eucharist'
By • Zenit News Agency • 5/26/2011
"May your life be founded on the Eucharistic Jesus," Bishop Echevarrķa stated. "Beginning today, the daily celebration of the Eucharist must be especially for you the central moment of each day; the center and root of our life, of every day of our earthly journey." ROME, ITALY (Zenit.org) - Bishop ...
Knights of the Holy Eucharist Call Us to Genuine Eucharistic Faith
By • Catholic Online • 5/24/2011
Founded in 1998 for the service of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament and the protection of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration residing at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, AL, the Knights live totally committed to adoring our Eucharistic King and to making known His Real ...
A Missionary Pope, the New Evangelization Council and the Ecclesial Movements
By • Catholic Online • 5/23/2011
Pope Benedict XVI notes what is obvious to any honest observer, many cultures formerly infused with a Christian culture are now "post-Christian" and need to be "re- evangelized." This is the "New Evangelization." We are called to live out our baptismal vocation through lives of ...
Priest who defied the Nazis beatified in Germany
By • Catholic Online • 5/17/2011
German priest Georg Haefner preached long and hard against the Third Reich in his native Germany. Sixty-eight years after he died of starvation and disease at Dachau, Haefner, whose death at the hands of the Nazis was judged to be "in odium fidei" -- out of "hatred for the faith." LOS ANGELES, CA ...
Benedict XVI: Priesthood Is a Vocation, Not a Job
By • Zenit News Agency • 3/14/2011
The Pope said the priest "does not preach a Christianity a la carte, according to his own tastes, preaching a Gospel according to his own preferred ideas, according to his own theological ideas.He does not exempt himself from proclaiming the whole will of God, also the uncomfortable will, also ...
