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Publications by NCDVD Members and Friends
2009 World Day of Prayer for Vocations Message from the Holy Father - English | Spanish
“Apostolic Visitation Final Report” –American Seminaries and houses of priestly formation
Sean Cardinal O’Malley, OFM Cap, Final Report Letter
Vatican report: Most U.S. seminaries are generally healthy
NCDVD Publications:
Is Jesus Calling You to be a Catholic Priest
2005 Theological Journal: Building a Culture of Vocation
USCCB Publications on the Priesthood and Priestly Formation:
http://www.usccb.org/vocations/
http://www.usccbpublishing.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=696
Includes purchasing information on:
The Program for Priestly Formation
Conversion, Discernment, Mission: Creating a Vocation Culture in North America
Documents related to priesthood and priestly formation:
Optatum Totius: Second Vatican Council Decree on Priestly Training
Presbyterorum Ordinis: Second Vatican Council Decree on the Ministry of Priest
Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis (Spiritual Formation in Seminaries), The Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education
Ordinatio Sacerdotalis: Apostolic Letter of John Paul II on Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone.
Pastores Dabos Vobis: Apostolic Exhortation of John Paul II on the Formation of Priests in the Present Day.
Vatican Instruction On Priesthood and Those With Homosexual Tendencies
Vocare Winter 2009: Newsletter for The Archdiocese of Detroit.
CARA Survey: Sacraments Today: Belief and Practice Among U.S. Catholic (Executive Summary).
Catholic Ministry Formation Enrollments: Statistical Overview for 2007 - 2008.
Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life
Vocations.com: A discernment website sponsored by the Diocese of Joliet
Frequently requested Statistics on the priesthood and religious life
Catholic World Report 2005 Study on Seminarians Preparing for Ordination
NCCV Publications
NCDVD members receive a 10% discount on the following materials:
All For Love Discernment Guide
On the Way to Priesthood Discernment Guide
En Camino Al Sacerdocio Discernment Guide
News Archive
A's prospect leaving baseball for call of the priesthood
Grant Desme, a 23-year-old minor league outfielder in Oakland's system, is retiring from baseball to follow a calling into the Catholic priesthood. Read More
2009 USCCB Fall General Assembly - website
In his remarks to the General Assembly, His Excellency, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, referred to his presence at our 46th Annual Convention and remarked that he found the vocations directors of the United States to be “an impressive group full of enthusiasm and dedication, with a great mission entrusted to them..”
CARA Class of 2010 Project
For several years now, the Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations, in collaboration with CARA, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, has been compiling information regarding men who are ordained to priesthood within a particular year...click for more
Video Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI
To participantes in the International Retreat for Priests. Ars, September 27 - October 3, 2009
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