A big thank you to NCCW
NFCRV Executive Director Phil Loftus takes a moment at the NCCW 2024 Convention in Oklahoma City to thank members of the National Council...
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Jul 101 min read
Friends of the Fund part of Eucharistic Pilgrimage
Wonderful to have two friends of the Vocation Fund involved in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage: Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of the...
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May 212 min read
Contemplating the future with gladness
NFCRV 2023 ANNUAL REPORT LETTER FROM OUR BOARD CHAIR At the close of the Synod on Synodality in October 2023 Pope Francis told those...
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Jan 71 min read
2024 NFCRV Grant Application window opens Jan. 8—applications accepted through April 12, 2024
The National Fund for Catholic Religious Vocations will accept online applications from NRVC members from January 8, 2022 through April...
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Dec 13, 20231 min read
Glory to God!
As we celebrate the coming of the Prince of Peace, we offer special prayers of thanksgiving and hope for all grantees, donors, and...
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Nov 20, 20231 min read
Return to close encounters
"As the pandemic eased in 2022, we were finally able to return to face-to-face or physical encounters with each other, and in so doing,...
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Oct 9, 20231 min read
The challenge of student debt to vocations in the news once more
Recently the Tablet, the diocesan newspaper of Brooklyn, highlighted the challenge to new vocations due to education debt. The article...
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Jul 16, 20231 min read
Inaugural Prayer Breakfast plants seeds for annual gathering
The Vocation Fund's inaugural prayer breakfast, held at Big Spring Country Club in Louisville on June 29, gathered local Catholics to...
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Jun 26, 20231 min read
Awareness-building Vocation Fund prayer breakfast to feature Louisville Archbishop
Louisville Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre will be the keynote speaker at a prayer breakfast hosted by the Vocation Fund on Thursday, June 29...
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May 1, 20231 min read
NFCRV welcomes Development Associate
The Vocation Fund is pleased to welcome Dione Jarboe to our team as Development Associate. Dione hails from Tell City, Indiana and comes...
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Mar 10, 20231 min read
NFCRV attends record-breaking event for Catholic education
Louisville, KY - NFCRV Board Chair Father Anthony Vinson, O.S.B. and Executive Director Phil Loftus were among the 1,400 in attendance on...
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Feb 10, 20231 min read
Grantee Sr. Ana Gonzalez, O.P. makes plea for immigrants
In a recent article for the Global Sisters Report, Dominican Sister of Peace and 2015 Vocation Fund Grant Recipient Sister Ana Gonzalez...
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Oct 31, 20221 min read
NFCRV explores new strategic initiatives
The NFCRV Board convened from Oct. 18-19, 2022 at Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Saint Meinrad, IN, home of NFCRV Board Chair, Father Anthony...
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Oct 24, 20221 min read
Spotlight on the "beautiful" work of the Vocation Fund
Vocation Fund grantee Salesian Sister Pamela Rose F.M.A. and Fund Executive Director Phil Loftus were featured in a National Catholic...
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Aug 12, 20221 min read
Establishment of the Fund was a highlight of his tenure, say former NRVC executive director
Br. Paul Bednarczyk, C.S.C., former executive director of the National Religious Vocation Conference and a founding member and first...
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Apr 21, 20221 min read
Support the Ukrainian Relief Fund
NFCRV Board member Sr. Michele Vincent Fisher, C.F.S.N. has alerted us to the needs of her sisters in Eastern Europe directly affected by...
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Mar 26, 20221 min read
Student debt's impact on vocations captures eye of Wall Street
Vocation Fund Executive Director Phil Loftus was featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Francis X. Rocca on the obstacle...
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Jan 19, 20221 min read
NFCRV board meets
The NFCRV board held its annual meeting via Zoom on Jan. 18, 2022. The Board reviewed the positive results from the Decade of Promise...
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Jan 13, 20221 min read
Fr. Anthony leads seminarians to get their hands dirty
NFCRV Board of Director, Father Anthony Vinson, O.S.B., who also serves as pastor of St. Meinrad Parish and St. Boniface Parish in...
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Dec 10, 20211 min read
2022 NFCRV Grant Application window opens Jan. 3. Applications accepted through April 22, 2022.
The National Fund for Catholic Religious Vocations will accept online applications from NRVC members from January 3, 2022 through April...
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