Most popular questions

• I read stories of religious communities merging or closing down. Are religious organisations dying out?
• Do religious communities offer a trial period?
• I’d like to join a religious community but I like living in Ireland. Can I be sent anywhere or do I have a say in the matter?
• 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?
• Is there a vocations test I can take to see if I have a vocation to the priesthood?
• If I take a vow of celibacy, will I get very lonely?
• Why would anybody become a priest nowadays?
• Why are there so many different religious organisations?
• I see on vocations websites that I should contact their vocations director. What is a vocations director?
• Why do we have priests? Can’t lay people do the work of priests?