Vocation Articles
Cardinal Bertone: Priests as Prophets of a New World
Zenit News Agency • 6/10/2010
The cardinal spoke about the priesthood and celibacy Wednesday afternoon at the "Priests Today" conference, held at Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. The Congregation for Clergy sponsored the three-hour event, in cooperation with the Focolare Movement, the Schoenstatt Movement and the International ...
Pro-Life Hero, Catholic Convert, Deacon Paul Schenck, to be Ordained to the Priesthood
By • LifeSiteNews • 6/9/2010
'The pro-life movement drew me toward reunion with the Catholic Church... I saw that coherent moral theology, Christian unity and spiritual authority were essential to success. I'm blessed beyond expression by this generous and gratuitous privilege of being ordained a priest, an 'alter Christi' ...
Beautiful Feet: Beloved Priests Attacked By Demons in Broad Daylight
By • Catholic Online • 6/4/2010
While the demons of hell attempt to knock the feet out from under priests in Rockford, IL through attack, they persist in bringing the Gospel even into the satanic abortion trenches. Their revulsion for anything as holy as a Catholic priest is evident in their bizarre window displays, a few of ...
Archbishop Timothy Dolan: 'God Is the Only Treasure People Desire to Find in a Priest'
By • Catholic Online • 6/2/2010
'Sometimes I wonder if we are being invited back to the Church of the Acts of the Apostles. Sometimes I wonder if we priests, bishops -- indeed the entire Church -- have been reduced to the utterly basic reply of Peter and John to the crippled beggar in Temple Square in Jerusalem, as recorded in ...
The Finger of God for Healing: Faith Healing Priest Draws Thousands
By • Catholic Online • 5/28/2010
One is inexorably drawn to the mysterious intensity of God's compassion and love in Fr. McAlear as his lips move in silent groanings and he cradles the stricken faces of those for whom he prays.Shunning sensationalism or hysteria, he facilitates healing with a whisper, using very few, if any, ...
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: Pentecost and the Ecclesial Movements
By • Catholic Online • 5/19/2010
Ecclesial movements are the providential response of the Holy Spirit to critical challenges of the new millennium, the divine finger pointing out where these challenges exist and ways in which to meet them. The Church was founded for the very purpose of spreading the kingdom of Christ ...
Fatima: Pope to Bishops, Calls for New Missionary Vigor, Affirms Ecclesial Movements
By • Catholic Online • 5/13/2010
'I confess to you the pleasant surprise that I had in making contact with the movements and the new ecclesial communities. Watching them, I had the joy and the grace to see how, at a moment of weariness in the Church, at a time when we were hearing about "the winter of the Church", the Holy Spirit ...
Ecclesial Movements: SOLT, The Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity
By • Catholic Online • 5/10/2010
In the wake of the traumatic world events of the last century and the disintegration of relationships at all levels, it is the total love, the complete gift Jesus makes of Himself in the Mystery of His Incarnation and Redemption, which restores us to communion again with Our Father and heals the ...
Fr. Owen A. McGrath, CSP: Star Athlete Who Gave His Life to the Priesthood
By • Catholic Online • 5/5/2010
While athletes accepting religious vocations continue to make headlines, it really is nothing new. Consider the life of this Paulist priest who was ordained in 1908.The article reports on the ordination two days earlier of Fr. Owen A. McGrath, CSP, at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. It reports ...
Worldwide Increase in Number of Catholics. More Bishops, More Priests, More Deacons
Asia News • 4/27/2010
The Statistical Yearbook of the Church records that there are 1.166 billion Catholics on the planet with a growth rate slightly ahead of that of the global population. 5,002 bishops and 409,166 priests. The vitality of Catholicism in Asia, where all data is positive. VATICAN CITY (AsiaNews) - The ...
