Thousands gather at SEEK24 to ‘be the light’

Nearly 20,000 conference participants have converged in St. Louis at the America's Center Convention Complex for the Jan. 1-5 SEEK24 conference held by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students.

The SEEK24 conference marks a significant milestone for FOCUS, which has just concluded celebrations

FOCUS marks 25 years of missionary-driven evangelization

"FOCUS' mission statement is simple: It's to know Christ Jesus and fulfill the great commission," said Curtis Martin, founder of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students. Based in Denver, FOCUS lives out that mission in that order: For its campus missionaries, "divine

One-third of all seminarians have this in common

The population of priests in the U.S. has fallen by at least 25,000 since 1965, according to data from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. Over three thousand parishes were pastor-less in 2022. Around the country, parishes are closing, merging,