On my 25th birthday a few weeks ago while staying at my parents’ house in the Colorado Rockies, I went on a long walk with my mom around a frozen lake. We...
Vocations
Read about Catholic vocations, offering insights into discernment, prayer, and living out God’s call in both religious and lay vocations.
“Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, heasked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ ”(Matt. 16:13) My...
Less than a year after retiring, Joseph Sclafani went right back to work. He knew that his 30 years of obstetric experience could make a major impact in a...
San Francisco–based artist Stefan Salinas, whose webcomic The Sacramental Father Dom tracks the everyday life of a priest, never doubted his vocation. “From as...
Growing up as one of four brothers in a family that was active in our parish, it was difficult to attend Mass or another church function without a random...
Most of what I read about the topic of vocation strikes me as trite and cliché. “Listen to your inner voice.” “Follow God’s call.” “Allow yourself to be led by...
Father Matthew Schneider had a “pretty normal Catholic upbringing,” he says. His family went to Mass on Sundays, he attended Catholic school, and he was an...
Once I filled out the online survey, the flood began: Apparently I had not been discerning enough in my responses to the survey questions, because I think...
It is an old saw that a liberal education is a value in and of itself, but when students are asked to matriculate with a lifetime of debt, can anyone honestly...
Sullivan McCormick paced the sidewalk for 10 minutes before he had the courage to stop. Finally, leaning next to a fire hydrant on a street corner in...
