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Not long ago, a reader wrote in and asked if I knew of any places for a man with a late vocation. I directed him to this seminary, in Massachusetts. And now a local paper has done a story about a 62-year-old who’s about to be ordained from there: Bill Korpi has been in the…

A new push for vocations has been launched in Florida, where parishes have started hanging that great recruitment poster you see on the left. Details on a vocations workshop, from the Florida Catholic: Pope John Paul II’s legacy of an energized youth movement in the church and other factors have come together to create a…

Nothing, I think, is quite as rare as an ordination during Lent. But that’s not stopping the gang down in Atlanta, where a new class of deacons is about to be ordained tomorrow. From the Georgia Bulletin: There will soon be more permanent deacons serving Catholics in the Archdiocese of Atlanta than there are priests.…

I write a lot about late vocations around here — most deacons, after all, become deacons later in life — but a post earlier this week about the diminishing number of nuns and monks prompted this e-mail from one woman: I think it would help if religious orders themselves did not exlude some of their…
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