Vocations

Discover your Vocation? There’s an app for that

The Catholic Church in England and Wales has launched a cellphone app designed to help users deepen their faith and discover their vocations. The “God Calls” app was commissioned by the National Office for Vocation of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales as a “spiritual toolkit.”

Pope: Trust Young People!

To foster vocations, the church must trust young people who, “despite belonging to the ‘selfie’ generation, look for full meaning in their lives, even when they do not always look for it where it can be found,” Pope Francis said.

Sunday Times Associate Editor Talks to Seminarians

Catholic seminarians hosted prominent political journalist Ranjeni Munusamy as a guest lecturer. Ms Munusamy, currently associate editor of The Sunday Times and previously of The Daily Maverick, comes from Dundee diocese and is at present a parishioner in Bryanston, Johannesburg

Is Being Single A Vocation?

I read an article from an Irish Catholic newspaper in which the columnist stated that “there is no such thing as a vocation to the single life” because it is “not part of God’s plan for people”. Sarah-Leah Pimentel has been called to the single life – as a vocation.