Jean-Claude Duncan was ordained to the priesthood on Dec. 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Cloud. He said of his faith journey, “My story might be atypical, but it is nothing in comparison to the work of God in the lives of each of us every day. Conversion is the process of trust we all must live daily.”
St. Cloud’s newest priest, Father Jean-Claude Duncan: ‘Conversion is the process of trust we all must live daily’
Vocation Awareness Week: Miara Cash
Miara Cash grew up attending St. John Church in Foley with her family. She has spent the last three years formally discerning her vocation as a consecrated virgin.
Vocation Awareness Week: Deacon Lorenzo Sánchez Rodríguez
Deacon Lorenzo Sánchez Rodríguez was ordained a permanent deacon in 2022 after graduating from the Emmaus Institute.
Serra Club welcomes and encourages seminarians along their vocation journey
Founded in 1935, the Serra Club is mostly a lay organization whose focus is to foster and affirm vocations to the priesthood and to consecrated religious life in the Catholic Church.
Francis’ decade as pope called dramatic, dizzying, daring and divisive — anything but dull
What Francis has done, Ivereigh argued, is reconnect the church with grace and with the Holy Spirit.
Synod process in North America coming to close, shows ‘deep love for Jesus Christ and Church,’ says bishop
The final document for the continental stage from North America, along with the contributions of the six other continental assemblies, will form the basis of the “instrumentum laboris,” or working document, to be released by the general secretariat in June 2023.
Faith is a call to service and mission, pope tells U.S. seminarians
“The journey of priestly formation demands a constant communion: first with God, but also with those joined together in Christ’s body, the church,” Pope Francis said.
Global church is seeing how pope’s vision of synodality involves everyone
Pope Francis in October of this year announced a second session for October 2024, saying he did not want to rush the process of discerning how the Holy Spirit is calling the church to grow in synodality.