News/Blog :: Vocations - Diocese of Corpus Christi http://2503.2.ecatholicwebsites.com Wed, 22 May 2013 23:14:46 GMT Pope reassigns responsibility for seminaries, religious instruction http://2503.2.ecatholicwebsites.com/index.cfm?load=news&newsarticle=127&page=217 VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In an administrative move reaffirming his efforts to promote a Catholic revival in the West and greater adherence to traditional church teaching, Pope Benedict XVI has reassigned responsibility among Vatican offices for the religious education of laypeople and future priests. Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:00:00 GMT rss127 Fostering vocations to the priesthood is a constant challenge for the Church http://2503.2.ecatholicwebsites.com/index.cfm?load=news&newsarticle=73&page=217 VATICAN CITY, (VIS) – On June 25, the Holy See released the document Pastoral Guidelines for Fostering Vocations to Priestly Ministry. Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT rss73 Seminarian scholarships available http://2503.2.ecatholicwebsites.com/index.cfm?load=news&newsarticle=44&page=217 SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Catholic Life Insurance is offering two seminarian scholarships to college graduates enrolled or who will enroll in the fall in a Catholic Seminary. The application deadline for the Msgr. Albert G. Henkes and the Msgr. Lawrence J. Stuebben Seminarian Scholarships is June 15. Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT rss44 New religious vocations are younger, more educated http://2503.2.ecatholicwebsites.com/index.cfm?load=news&newsarticle=43&page=217 Washington D.C. (CNA/EWTN News) - A recent study of men and women who professed perpetual vows in 2011 shows that new members of religious orders are younger and more educated than those in the past. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT rss43 Garza installed to ministry of lector http://2503.2.ecatholicwebsites.com/index.cfm?load=news&newsarticle=36&page=217 Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone of the Diocese of Charleston hands the Book of the Word to Omar Garza, a seminarian for the Diocese of Corpus Christi, as he installed him into the ministry of lector. Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT rss36