Vocations

Media partnership collars men where they're at

New vocations are found online

Quinton Amundson · August 31, 2026

Nearly six months since it debuted on March 21 with a long-form conversation featuring then Archdiocese of Toronto vocations director Fr. Matthew McCarthy, The Collar podcast has emerged as a significant success story.

Don Bosco House gala promotes vocational happily ever afters

Angelica Vecchiato · August 14, 2026

The “Happily Ever After” gala, hosted by the Don Bosco House, drew 270 young Catholics from around the GTA on Aug. 7 at the Primavera Event Space in Woodbridge, Ont., for a high-class evening of fellowship and faith.

God aces golf for B.C. priest

Fr. Rich Conlin chooses to walk with the Lord

Luke Mandato · June 27, 2026

In more ways than the faithful might realize, the game of golf has long held rich parallels to the Catholic faith.

Culture à la Carte

The priesthood’s heart is in spiritual fatherhood

Sr. Helena Burns · May 8, 2026

I was recently watching the Daily TV Mass when the young Salesian priest from Toronto who was saying the Mass told his amazing vocation story.

Daily TV Mass highlights prayers for vocations

Luke Mandato · April 17, 2026

For the 10th consecutive year, the National Catholic Broadcasting Council (NCBC) is inviting Catholics across Canada to join in its powerful week of Masses dedicated to prayers for vocations, airing April 19 to 26 on the Daily TV Mass.

Sold-out Ordinandi Dinner fetes future religious

Interest growing in religious vocations

Luke Mandato · March 19, 2026

The 36th Annual Ordinandi Dinner is returning to Brampton, Ont.’s Pearson Convention Center on March 24 to celebrate and honour the Transitional Deacons of St. Augustine’s and Redemptoris Mater Missionary Seminaries.

God’s perfect timing leads seminarian down path to the priesthood

Luke Mandato · February 26, 2026

After a decade of discernment, Victor Valdés finds himself on the threshold of priesthood in the Archdiocese of Toronto, the culmination of a vocation that began with a tender nudge from the Holy Spirit in a Scarborough parish pew.

Young men invited to Come and See

Luke Mandato · February 20, 2026

The Archdiocese of Toronto’s Office of Vocations is again hosting its Come and See Weekend Discernment Retreat at St. Augustine's Seminary for single Catholic men 18 years and older.

Embrace what God has in store

Quinton Amundson · June 11, 2025

The several hundred Calgary-area Catholics attending the second annual diocesan vocations rally June 8 were encouraged to embrace the pathway God has in store for them.

A joyful journey so far for Deacon Joys

Quinton Amundson · March 19, 2025

Deacon Alvin Joys' last name is not a misnomer. The joy in the heart of the 29-year-old was evident throughout his phone interview with The Catholic Register.