Resources and Links

Here are further resources relevant to Catholic vocations, love, and discernment. We aim to include here only websites that are faithful to the Catholic Church and its teaching. If you see a website in this list that you think does not belong, or if there is any Catholic vocations website you would like to see listed here, please contact us.

• Religious Communities for Women - Religious Communities for Men - links to their websites
• Diocesan Vocation Offices

• Websites with articles on vocation

• • vocation.com - Catholic vocation resources for promoting and discerning vocations.
  • www.dioceseofjoliet.org/vocations/
  • Consecrated Virginity in the Catholic Church - Information from the United States Association of Consecrated Virgins (USACV) on the vocation to consecrated virginity.
  • Office of Vocations - Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis - Resources for those discerning a vocation. Short summaries and answers to questions about vocations to the priesthood, diaconate, and consecrated life.
  • Religious Vocation and Consecrated Life - On the nature of religious and consecrated life, the relationship between religious life and holiness, and the difference between various religious orders.

• Church documents

• • Vatican website
  • Papal Encyclicals Online - It can sometimes be easier to find encyclicals here than at the Vatican website, and they may actually be more typo-free as well

• Vocation blogs

• • Roman Catholic Vocations - thoughts on the promotion, discernment, and living of vocations in the Catholic Church
  • Traditional Vocations Blog - promoting vocations to Traditional societies and religious orders, of men and women, that use the traditional form (the Extraordinary Form) of the Roman Rite
  • Holy Vocations - a group blog of those discerning a vocation

• Other websites

• • Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life & Vocations - Information on vocations to the priesthood, diaconate, and consecrated life from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
  • Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus - a doorway on this site to a well-researched blog on the teaching of the Church on the the necessity of belonging to the Church, and the call to do so.
  • Laboure Society - The Laboure Society assists aspirants to priesthood or religious life who find themselves unable to answer their call due to personal debt.
  • Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations - The Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations (MEFV) helps those who have responded to God's call to religious life but are hindered by their student loans.
  • Good Catholic Books - PDF books in theology and spirituality - the vocational books formerly available on this website are now hosted here on Paths of Love, but numerous other books by Catholic saints, doctors and theologians may still be found there.