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Seminary’s Older Vocations Boom
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Seminary’s Older Vocations Boom New Priests Reflect on Serving the Church After Leaving Worldly Professions Marge Fenelon According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University, the population of Catholics in the United States has risen by more than 18 million during the last 40 years. As a result, there is an increasing need for priests to serve the faithful of our Church. Blessed John XXIII National Seminary, located in Weston, Mass., is a unique institution helping to meet this need. Named after the soon-to-be canonized Holy Father who died 50 years ago, it was founded in 1964 by Cardinal Richard Cushing with the encouragement and explicit blessing of Pope Paul VI. It is the only seminary in the United States preparing men 30 to 60 years of age that is also administered by diocesan priests. A recent survey of new priests — 500 men were ordained this year — from CARA noted that the median age of the 2013 ordination cl...
Serving the Church through a “Second Vocation” Ordained in their 40s, 50s, or 60s, these men offer a unique pastoral perspective to their flocks.
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Serving the Church through a “Second Vocation” Ordained in their 40s, 50s, or 60s, these men offer a unique pastoral perspective to their flocks. Many diocesan seminaries will not accept older applicants to the priesthood, and often with good reason. An older man can have greater difficulty in meeting the demands of the priesthood or giving up the freedom or material success of his single life, or find it a challenge to place himself under the authority of a bishop. When people age, they often become more set in their ways, and might struggle in adapting to the life of a diocesan priest. While some American dioceses will not accept men over 40 to study for the priesthood, others are open to older vocations. The following are the stories of five men—four priests and one transitional deacon—who were ordained in their 40s, 50s, and 60s and who have found great success and many blessings in their “second vocation.” Each of their stories is unique, and each ...