Religious Vocations

Religious Formation Conference. What is religious life? What does formation mean? For anyone with questions about religious life, this Web site offers a place to start. When you’ve read the questions and answers on this page, a mouse click on "home" will bring you to the home page of the Religious Formation Conference. There you will find additional information on the conference and its services and links to the Web sites of related organizations.

Prayers for Religious Vocations. This page, which is part of a Web site maintained by the Jesuit community at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, offers a special prayer for religious vocations for each month of the year.

LCWR: Links to Women’s Congregations This page is provided by LCWR, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Here you will find links to web sites maintained by many different congregations of women religious, among them Benedictines, Carmelites, Sisters of Charity, Franciscans, Sisters of St. Joseph, Religious of the Sacred Heart, and countless others. In short, this single page opens doors to a wealth of information for anyone curious about religious life.

Catholic-USA.com: Religious Congregations of Men This page offers links to Web sites maintained by provinces of various congregations of men or, in the case of monastic orders, individual monasteries. Included are links to Augustinian, Benedictine, Dominican, Franciscan, Pallotine, Trappist, and other communities. As with the similar page for women religious on Sister Site, this single page opens many doors.

Religious Calling May Come Online This story from the July 31, 2000, issue of The Detroit News tells how the Internet is fast becoming one of the preferred methods of explaining religious life to today’s young men and women.