St. Paul, Minn., Oct 24, 2016 / 05:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Personal and student debt can slow down or prevent prospective seminarians and aspirants to religious orders from pursuing their vocations, but one organization with national scope aims to change that.
The Laboure Society’s work is critical because thousands of discerning men and women are seeking to answer the Lords call to serve his Church, but they are blocked from entering formation because of outstanding student loan debt, said Bill LeMire, director of advancement for the Laboure Society. These are vocations [in] the Catholic Church that we will lose if they are not helped.
According to LeMire, there are about 4,000 men and women seriously discerning the priesthood or religio…
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