National Vocations Awareness Week

National Vocations Awareness Week

National Vocations Awareness Week begins January 9, 2012. Resources for parishes and families are available by clicking here. Look for Bishop Burbidge's letter in your church bulletin this Sunday. A...

Cassock Day 2011

Cassock Day 2011

Four Raleigh Seminarians received their cassocks: Christian Cook and Evan Waniewski at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and Noe Ramirez and Juan Carlos Garcia at Santa Maria de Guadalupe in Mexico City...

New Vocations Poster

New Vocations Poster

The 2011-2012 Vocation poster has been released by the Diocese of Raleigh Vocations Office. The four-color display features the 22 men in formation for the Priesthood. It includes a quote from Pope ...

Bishop Burbidge Ordains Fr. Brendan Joseph Buckler

Bishop Burbidge Ordains Fr. Brendan Joseph Buckler

The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge bestowed the Sacrament of Holy Orders on Father Brendan Joseph Buckler at an Ordination Mass celebrated at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh, June 4, 2011. T...

Don Maloney Ordained to the Diaconate

Don Maloney Ordained to the Diaconate

Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge ordained Don Edward Maloney to the Transitional Diaconate in a Rite of Ordination of a Deacon celebrated at Saint Luke the Evangelist Church in Raleigh, Deacon Mal...

Two Raleigh Seminarians Instituted into Acolyte Ministry

Two Raleigh Seminarians Instituted into Acolyte Ministry

Raleigh seminarians Ryan Elder and Nick Cottrill were instituted into the Ministry of Acolytes on May 7, 2011 at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary by the Most Rev. Timothy Senior, Auxiliary Bishop of Ph...

Upcoming Events

Priesthood Discernment Group
Sat Jan 14 @08:00AM - 01:00PM

Ryan Elder's Birthday
Sat Jan 21

Tim Ahn's Birthday
Sat Jan 28

Priesthood Discernment Group
Sat Feb 11 @09:00AM - 01:00PM

Priesthood Discernment Group Pilgrimage
Fri Feb 24 @08:00AM - 05:00PM

Vocations Stories
Fr. Paul Byron

Father Paul Byron relates that he was seven years old in 1928 when he announced to his Irish Catholic family in Albany, NY, that he was going to be a priest. Read more...

Fr. Romen Acero

Growing up in Bogota, Colombia, “I knew at 14 that God was calling me to be a priest,” Father Acero says. “I had been an altar server, and was very involved in a pastoral group. Read more....


Fr. Justin Kerber, C.P.
Father Kerber can’t remember a time when he didn’t want to be a priest. “I never entertained anything else,” he says. Read more...