News Articles

Vocation Work: It’s About Loving Our Priesthood
Long Island Catholic – November 2014

The Rev. Joseph Fitzgerald, former Olympian, on spiritual quest to recruit priests
Newsday Article – PDF

Worth a Thousand Words
http://thecatholicsun.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=4549:worth-a-thousand-words&Itemid=1662

Restaurants Host 250 Seminary Guests
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Woman in top vocations job feels called by God ‘to support his sons’
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1404020.htm

Work of vocation directors vital to church’s future, says archbishop
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20140929.htm

Vocation Directors Convene on Long Island
http://licatholic.org/vocation-directors-convene-on-long-island/

Retiring priests leave void in dioceses nationwide, Catholic leaders say
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/retiring-priests-leave-void-in-dioceses-nationwide-catholic-leaders-say-1.9388754

Convention on vocations to priesthood to be held in Hauppauge
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/convention-on-vocations-to-priesthood-to-be-held-in-hauppauge-1.9365598

Class of 2010: CARA report
Ordination Class of 2010 Highly Educated and Experienced  – Click here for more

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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