Most popular questions

• Do religious communities offer a trial period?
• I see on vocations websites that I should contact their vocations director. What is a vocations director?
• School was never something I really liked. Is the study part of formation very hard?
• Why are there so many different religious organisations?
• If I request information about joining a religious organisation, will I be pressured into joining?
• Are there any books I should read to help me discern my vocation?
• Can I become a bishop or cardinal and not a priest?
• Why are there so many different religious orders?
• I hear my local priest say in his homily that there’s a shortage of priests in Ireland, is there really a shortage of priests?
• I feel I have a specific charism to youth outreach. Can I live this charism out as a priest, or must I follow the charism of the order I join?