New statistics show marked decline from 1960s
Topic: vocations
New figures show stark decline in Catholic baptisms, ordinations and marriages
Posted on Friday, 17 May 2013
Jimmy Cricket’s son to be ordained a deacon
Posted on Thursday, 28 June 2012
Frankie Mulgrew, to be ordained a priest next year, will minister to athletes at the Olympics this summer
Vatican releases guidelines on promoting vocations
Posted on Monday, 25 June 2012
Cardinal says ‘the strongest candidates grow in hostile environments’
England and Wales to see sharp rise in ordinations
Posted on Thursday, 21 June 2012
Number of priestly ordinations expected to almost double in two years
Number of women joining religious orders triples in three years
Posted on Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Last year there were 17 new recruits in England and Wales, up from six in 2009
Pop band release single in support of vocations drive
Posted on Monday, 28 May 2012
The band ooberfuse have composed a ‘dubstep’ soundtrack for the Church’s new vocations framework
Discernment groups are an excellent idea: they remind us lay people that we have a vocation too
Posted on Thursday, 3 May 2012
Let’s hope they put an end to Shine Jesus Shine and X Factor-style retreats
Church announces three-year vocations drive
Posted on Friday, 27 April 2012
Aim is to ensure every young person has a discernment group to discuss vocations
The 1994 statement permitting girl servers was a mistaken tactical retreat which led to a fall in priestly vocations. It’s time to withdraw it
Posted on Thursday, 25 August 2011
Undoing the damage will take time: the sooner the Church starts to clear up the mess, the better
Church in England and Wales is seeing a welcome rise in vocations
National Office for Vocation reports rise in numbers of people entering religious life