Religious Orders Use Web as Recruiting Tool, readingeagle.com -- BALTIMORE - When Patricia Dooley began to wonder what her life would be like if she were a nun, she did what she had been doing for years as a newspaper reporter and editor: She hit the Internet.  READ MORE.....

 

VocationMatch.com Inquiries Surge in 2009, Reuters --  CHICAGO, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The VocationMatch.com website saw a record number of people complete online profiles and inquire about a vocation as a Catholic sister, brother, or priest in the past year.  READ MORE....

 

 

 

 

Catholic Seminarians Embrace Strict Rules, The Tennessean --  Priests emerge from the old school.  READ MORE....

 

 

 

 

 

Laypeople have duty to nurture vocations, says NY Archbishop Dolan, TheCatholicSpirit.com --  New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, keynote speaker at the 67th Serra International Convention in Omaha,  Neb., said the lay faithful of the church have a duty to nurture vocations to the  priesthood.  READ MORE....

 

 

 

 

Eduardo Verastegui tells Catholic youth at English festival about call to holiness, Catholic News Agency -- Catholic actor Eduardo Verastegui was one of several speakers at an annual festival held at Walsingham, England during the country’s August bank holiday weekend. About 1,500 young people took part in the five day session of camping, music and Catholic renewal. Verastegui told the youthful audience that they were called to holiness in their everyday lives, according to a press release from Youth 2000. He also spoke to the young pilgrims about chastity.  READ MORE....

The Vatican is now on YouTube!  Comments by the Holy Father on use of the internet: "So that the Church and its message continue to be present in the great aeropagus of social communications as defined by John Paul II and so that it is not a stranger to those spaces where numerous young people search for answers and meaning in their lives, you must find new ways to spread voices and images of hope through the ever-evolving communications system that surrounds our planet." 

 

 

"Radical Love" -- Time Magazine photo essay with audio revealing the life of the cloistered Dominican nuns of Summit, N.J. Published online January 23, 2009.  Highly Recommended! Also recommened, the blog of the Dominicans featured in the photo essay -- MONIALES OP ~ DOMINICAN NUNS