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The Nuns Are OK: Building a Sustainable Future for Women Religious 

February 24, 2025
While numbers in congregations of women religious are falling in the United States, Catholic sisters from all corners of the country are reimagining how to live out their missions in a shifting cultural landscape. 
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In Search of Direction

May 7, 2024
Daniel Comboni’s (1831–1881) first missionary trip to Africa ended in failure. He returned home to Italy and came up with what was a novel idea then: involve African Christians directly in the evangelization of their sisters and brothers.
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Mike Sullivan, president of the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Steubenville, Ohio, is pictured in an undated photo explaining the components of a standard furnace to a student. New Catholic schools across the U.S are part of a growing trend for career-focused education in fields such as construction, carpentry, and HVAC, while integrating spiritual growth into vocational training. (OSV News photo/courtesy College of St. Joseph the Worker)

New Catholic Trade Schools Prepare Careers and Spiritual Vocations

March 12, 2024
Construction and architecture. Carpentry and HVAC. Machine and systems technology. All career fields with robust hiring futures — and all career fields young Catholics can pursue in a Christ-centered education environment
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Members of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation in Nashville, Tenn., are pictured in a file photo preparing for Mass at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, where they made their final profession of religious vows. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Rick Musacchio, Tennessee Register)

Vocations to religious life in US decline, but key factors can impact numbers

January 31, 2024
A new report shows a continued decrease in the number of permanent vocations to consecrated life in the U.S.
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Father Chin Nguyen greets a well-wisher following his ordination to the priesthood June 5, 2021, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, N.Y. Father Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam, was one of four men ordained by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn at the Mass. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Younger priests identify as theologically conservative, politically moderate

November 9, 2023
A closer look at the largest survey of U.S. Catholic priests in 50 years has revealed "a major shift in how priests view themselves and their priesthood," said researchers.
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Nine-year-old Teddy Howell, seen in an undated photo, wants to be a podcaster and a priest. Inspired by Father Mike Schmitz's popular podcast, "The Bible in a Year," the third-grader at St. Charles Borromeo Academy in Newport, Mich., has achieved one of those goals with the recent launch of his own podcast: "Kid's Bible In A Year with Teddy." (OSV News photo/courtesy Howell family)

Michigan third grader launches ‘Kid’s Bible in a Year with Teddy’ podcast

April 27, 2023
When he grows up, third-grader Teddy Howell, a member of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Newport, and wants to be a podcaster and a priest.
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