Over the last few decades, the Roman Catholic Church in America has struggled to fill the ranks of its clergy. The average age of the church’s serving priests and nuns is 70 and rising. But some Catholic orders in the United States are successfully attracting new members or postulants. Reporter Mike Osborne visited an order of Dominican sisters in the southern state of Tennessee where nearly a third of the sisters are under 30 years of age.
https://youtu.be/80msIR5Zs6s Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube Sister Maris Stella tells the story of how she found her vocation with the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville. Beforehand she had a comfortable life with many friends, was in college and had a boyfriend. But when she chose the religious life,…
https://youtu.be/sJ4NnPz-sZM Source: True Light Catholic Media on YouTube Other photo credits: Getty Images, News Group Newspapers Ltd) The story of how Fr. Philip Mulryne OP went from being a full-time professional footballer to a full-time priest. “In my twenties I kind of started to feel as if there was a…
https://youtu.be/rnzqm09adgM Source: The Thomistic Institute via YouTube Yes, there is a theory of everything—but it may not be what you expect! Centuries before Dr. Stephen Hawking entered the field of theoretical physics, St. Thomas Aquinas put forth a metaphysical theory of everything. Fr. James Brent, O.P., a Dominican friar from…
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