ROUNDTABLE: The Register speaks with Father Paul Hedman, Brother Leven Harton, and Sister Alicia Torres share how they discerned and what they love most about their vocation. Brother Leven Harton, ...

Photo by Josh Applegate on Unsplash. Just over one in 10 (12 percent) of the women in our survey said that they had ever considered becoming a woman religious. Of these women, 38 percent said that ...

(RNS) — While the numbers of priests and nuns have declined in recent decades, many millennials and Gen Zers still find a calling to religious life in the Catholic Church, even if the path to ...

Innovative ways of communicating are paying dividends in helping young Americans to discern religious life. Above, Franciscan Father Richard Goodin ‘going over my social media world,’ with screens for ...

Presenting the results of the National Religious Vocation Conference (NRVC) study on vocations to religious life at the U.S. bishops’ fall assembly, a religious brother has encouraged the bishops to ...

(RNS) — From 2020 to 2022, more than 900 women and men entered religious life. They all took their own, sometimes circuitous routes to get there. (RNS) — Sister Maria Angeline Weiss recalls her choice ...

"Evolving Religious Life," a continuing series from Global Sisters Report, explores how Catholic sisters are adapting to the realities of congregations in transition and new forms of religious life.

Sister Marlene Weidenborner, a Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, N.Y., is seen in this undated photo. She celebrated her 65th anniversary of religious life Oct. 30, 2021, during the “Religious Jubilee ...

Tuan Anh Nguyen's journey to religious life began with a stint as a youth minister, a proposed bargain with God and a (possibly) divine sign in a video game. Though wagering a vocation on his mad ...

A new survey of those in U.S. religious communities finds that most vowed religious are aging. However, most postulants in training are under 30 and tend to favor larger communities that are faithful ...

On April 30, The New York Times reported on the deaths of five women from the coronavirus at a facility outside Milwaukee. The reporter Julie Bosman’s story was likely the first time many paused to ...

I find comfort in the routines in life, especially when so much of life seems so uncertain and capricious. For almost a decade, I went running along the same route each day and encountered many of the ...