"People regularly make vocational inquiries to our office and we look forward with hope to the future of the diocesan priesthood in Ireland” - Fr Willie Purcell.

Pope warns religious communities who have stopped using the word because they think young people are scared by it that this is “a strategy doomed to failure.”

National Vocations Office marks its first anniversary with a national ‘Come and See’ vocations retreat on 23 and 24 November.

We are not victims of chance or swept up in a series of unconnected events. On the contrary, our life and our presence in this world is the fruit of a divine vocation, says Pope Francis.

“Vocations are born in prayer and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit” – Pope Francis.

Rise in numbers attending Open Day at Maynooth and among those discerning a vocation.

"Be courageous!" President of Maynooth urges student priests.