Every autumn, young people head off to school — I’m thinking mainly about those entering college or university. They arrive on campus with sometimes vague, but always developing, ideas about their ...

How Martin Luther’s doctrine of vocation can mold marriage, parenting, and childhood. For Gene Edward Veith Jr., provost and professor of literature at Patrick Henry College, Martin Luther’s doctrine ...

Building on Bethel’s long-standing strengths in mentorship, spiritual formation, and real-world preparation, The Studio is integrating vocational exploration and career readiness into key parts of the ...

In The Edge of Sadness, the elegiac successor to his wildly successful novel The Last Hurrah, Edwin O’Connor places these words about the priesthood and lay clericalism in the mouth of the story’s ...

KRAKOW, Poland — One of the gravest issues facing Catholics, especially in Western countries, is the marked decline in vocations to the priesthood and religious life. However, we know that God ...

The word vocation, originally used to indicate lives directly consecrated to God through priestly or religious service, has recently come into use in a much broader fashion. To expand vocation to ...

As the vocation director for the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal, Franciscan Sister Clare Matthiass helps young women discern whether they are called to religious life. But when she began discerning ...

Sister Josephine Garrett processes during a Nov. 21, 2020, Mass at St. Joseph Vietnamese Catholic Church in Grand Prairie, Texas, where she professed her final vows as a Sister of the Holy Family of ...

In two earlier posts (here and here), I described how Spider-Man and Batman can offer some career development life lessons to non-superheroes like us. The superhero-as-career-development-role-model ...

In a recent article for The Atlantic, former AEI president Arthur Brooks makes the case that to prevent burnout at work we need to create “meaningful boundaries” between work and the rest of our lives ...