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Vocations

Church Documents

•  Crisis in Vocations? What Crisis? Archbishop Elden Curtiss believes that the vocation "crisis" is more artificial and contrived than many people realize.
•  Formula That Works Is Based on Fidelity to the Church's Magisterium by Archbishop Elden Curtiss

Multimedia

•  Discerning the Will of God in Your Life Catholic Answers Live interview with Kimberley Hahn (requires RealPlayer)
•  Discernment: Is It God or Just Me? Catholic Answers Live interview with Fr Thomas Dubay (requires RealPlayer)
•  Lay Vocation Catholic Answers Live interview with Mary Jo Anderson (requires RealPlayer)
•  Priestly Vocations Catholic Answers Live interview with Archbishop Elden Curtiss of Omaha, Nebraska (requires RealPlayer)

Articles

•  Are you being called to the Priesthood or Religious Life? by Fr Phil Bloom
•  Ask Father: On becoming a priest
•  Choosing A Vocation by Fr William Most. How do we decide what our vocation is? How can we tell whether or not we have a vocation to the priesthood?
•  Collapse of Religious and Priestly Vocations by Fr Paul Marx OSB (from Catholic Faith, March/April 1996)
•  Confession and Vocations by Fr John Hardon SJ
•  Discerning a Vocation by Fr Anthony Bannon LC (from Catholic Dossier, July/August 1998)
•  Eucharist and Vocations by Fr John Hardon SJ
•  God Calls Everyone by Maggie Geene. A vocational article for youth explaining what vocation is, and suggesting some ways to discern a vocation.
•  Prayer to Know One's Vocation Knights of Columbus Home Study Course
•  Preparing for Vocations to the Priesthood by James S Foley (from Homiletic & Pastoral Review, July 1999)
•  Sacrifice and Vocations by Fr John Hardon SJ
•  Second Chance to Become Priests by Joseph C Frisch (from Homiletic & Pastoral Review, May 1999)
•  Vocation Crisis: The Self-Inflicted Wound by John P Fraunces. Why is it so difficult for orthodox men to become priests? (from Homiletic & Pastoral Review, March 1998)
•  Vocation Prayer : Society for Religious Vocation 
•  Vocational Choices for Youth by Maggie Geene. Our youth minister encourages young people to serious consider their vocational choices.
•  Vocations to Priesthood and Religious Life by Archbishop Elden P Curtiss of Omaha (from Lay Witness, June 1999)
•  What Is A Religious Vocation? by Fr John Hardon SJ
•  What Went Right? by Michael Flach. Prayer, devotion, and aggresive recruitment are the keys in a remarkably successful campaign to encourage priestly vocations in the diocese of Arlington, VA. (from Catholic World Report, May 1995)