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If you thought that the vocation crisis was just a Catholic problem, think again. This comes from the Erie Times News in Pennsylvania: Is there a Protestant clergy shortage? Yes and no. The answer, as in the Catholic Church, often depends on where you worship. Some churches, especially those that are small or rural, struggle…

In Wichita — where the lineman, I think, is still on the line — they have an astounding 46 seminarians in formation for the priesthood. This, in a diocese with only 120,000 Catholics. How’d they do it? A priest, Fr. Michael Simone, weighs in with some ideas: All vocations are the result of a call…

Few stories could be more poignant or tender than this tribute to a Trappist nun who passed away just before Christmas: When did Jeannie go to bed, not to get up again? I know she was there during the Chapter in September, when we were praying she would not leave us until I got back…

Over at Whispers, Rocco has posted a poignant tribute to a priest who died on New Year’s Eve, while trying to move a tree that had fallen during a windstorm. His name was Fr. Michael Kelly, 53, from the diocese of Arlington: A Civil War reenactor known as the “Flying Priest,” the loss of Kelly…
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