(RNS) — While the numbers of priests and nuns have declined in recent decades, many millennials and Gen Zers still find a calling to religious life in the Catholic Church, even if the path to ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Nestled between trees in Black Forest, Sister Mary Colleen Schwarz spends every single day devoting her life to her faith. "I listen more. I'm much more compassionate, inclusive," ...

The Second Vatican Council’s teaching on the universal call to holiness, in Chapter 5 of Lumen Gentium, was a landmark in the Church’s awareness of the vocation possessed by all the baptized. However, ...

This will be the fifth, and last, of my columns in this short series on the Holy Spirit. Admittedly, there is still so much that can and ought to be said about the need for a more robust pneumatology ...

Thirty-one-year-old James Pawlowicz's journey of self-discovery began during his high school years, when he started to realize that he was a boy but he lacked the words and understanding to fully ...

The Register received insights from women in four religious orders, all of whom are connected to the leadership board of the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious. Clockwise from left: Mother ...

Something significant is happening to religious life across the US. In just a few decades, remarkably large numbers of people have been leaving organized religion. However, this exodus is not in favor ...

Many of us are frustrated by religion. According to the General Social Survey–a large, representative survey done every few years for the past several decades–the number of Americans who say they have ...

On the day when the Church celebrates the World Day for Consecrated Life, CNA met with two Americans who followed God into religious life and now live out their vocations in the Holy Land. Father ...

There is no doubt that the United States values religious liberty: Freedom from government-established religion is, after all, a key right in our Constitution’s First Amendment. American universities ...

Another recent study about psychedelics proclaims these drugs can have a transformative impact on users, though in this case, the impact is not only on psychological health, but spiritual health as ...