Video, DVD promote priesthood, religious life

Published: 2006-07-18

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A vocation video and DVD are now available to assist youth groups, parishes and others interested in promoting vocations. Titled "You Could Make a Difference," the 17-minute audiovisual tool -- available in VHS video format or DVD format -- is in Spanish and English and helps parishes and other groups get discussions about vocations started. The video/DVD features four segments that show how priests and religious can serve the needs of the church. It highlights the ministry of a Christian brother who is the administrator of a Catholic high school in Jersey City, N.J.; a priest who is pastor of a multicultural urban parish in the Washington Archdiocese; and women religious serving at a home for troubled young women in Baltimore and at a medical clinic for the poor in El Paso, Texas. It was developed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Department of Communications with funding from the bishops' Catholic Communication Campaign and their Committee on Vocations.

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