#vocations

The Pews Are Full. The Seminaries & Convents Are Not. The seminaries are emptying, the convents are quiet, and the Church is running out of laborers — but your prayers can change that....

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity’s confirmation deepened her love for the Eucharist.

"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."

[Cornel] West: The conception of life in which you are a pilgrim or sojourner, moving through time tied to something bigger than you, even beyond time, means you’re going to be less likely to succumb to the forms of idolatry. If you have a conception of yourself tied to something that’s broader than just time and space, it means your sense of calling is deeper than just your sense of career. Me and Robbie encounter this all the time when young people come and say, "We love your brand." We say, "No, we don’t have a brand." We have a cause. We have a calling. And it’s beyond just history and time and space. And historically, it’s been those figures who had a sense of what John Coltrane called the bigger picture that connects us to the smaller picture that allows us to persevere with levels of integrity and love and honesty that make no sense in the eyes of the world.

True development, says St. Paul VI, always concerns "each man and the whole man" [Populorum progressio, §14]. "Each" means that no person can be left at the margins of digital transformation. "Whole" means that no one can be reduced to productivity, to cognitive performance, or to mere data. The person bears within him- or herself a freedom, an interiority and a vocation to love and worship that no machine can replace or block. Only with such an integral vision can artificial intelligence be directed toward the common good. Only together—those who design systems and those affected by them, richer countries and poorer ones, institutions and individuals, power centers and peripheries—will we be able to build a future, not for a privileged few, but for the entire human family.