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Last month, the spotlight fell on Atlanta, and its bumper crop of priestly ordinations. This month, it’s Memphis. From Rocco’s place: See, while a handful of dioceses have larger groups of seminarians, even the smallest of those are exponentially more sizable than the West Tennessee church, which’ll ordain six new priests by summer’s end —…

Periodically, I’ve posted stories of father-son clergy members, where dad’s a permanent deacon and the son is a priest. (I’d love to find that situation reversed — what a story that would be!) Well, here’s one more, from Florida Catholic, which also relates how the team pictured above — the Thesings of Miami — shared…

The vocations crisis is sending ripples across all kinds of ministries — including military chaplaincy. Now the National Guard is feeling the effects: When patriotism inspired the Rev. Jerry Fehn a decade ago to serve soldiers in combat zones abroad, the 45-year-old was afraid he had waited too long. He needn’t have worried. The National…

We are finding, more and more, many members of religious vocations are growing older, and dying off. Now, those who taught so many of us how to live are also teaching us how to die: Gravely ill with heart disease, tethered to an oxygen tank, her feet swollen and her appetite gone, Sister Dorothy Quinn,…
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