Stephen P. White, The Pillar
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
The vocation crisis is not merely a crisis of priestly and religious vocations—though that problem is real and remains acute in many parts of the American Church. Whole generations of American Catholics have simply stopped making vocational commitments of any kind. Anyone familiar with the Catholic dating scene today – I am reliably informed – will recognize the scale of the challenge. Even among those who do make a vocational commitment, not everything is a hunky dory. One underappreciated aspect of all of this is the number of priests who, for one reason or another, decide to leave ministry.
